In-class writing

For many people, blogging is similar to a personal diary. People are able to express their thoughts and feelings in a manner that is similar to creating a diary entry. These entries can be fact or feeling based, but the point is that they are a personal expression of one’s own thoughts. In response to the two articles assigned for today, this holds true. In the blog about a journalist’s trip to Iraq, he was able to write in a voice that suited him, not some editor that he was trying to impress. While this may have made his journalism more biased than it would have been otherwise, his readers were able to appreciate the honesty and personal nature of the blog. In the other article, the blog was much more of a personal based one than the fact based writing of the journalist on Iraq. Her blog was “intended” to be much more private, even anonymous. However, it seems to me that the blog was far too obvious for such a high powered individual to be kept a secret. The issue with blogging is that some may wish it to be more personal and private in nature, but the reality is that anything that you post on the internet becomes something for the public. If you want it to be private, you should keep a diary instead.