The New Sphere Movement

The New York Times and the blog that I follow, Deadspin, have very different styles of writing. I have notice that in Deadspin, the news articles are more for your entertainment and written in that way. It is freely written with opinions and curse words that draw in a certain audience. Its lack of professionalism is what intrigues me and keeps me reading more. The New York Times on the other hand is more news orientated although some stories can be presented to entertain the reader. But it is just the presentation, the info is strictly news. The writers want to make the articles more readable to their audience so they add things to make it more interesting and entertaining.

                The mobile site of Deadspin is quite handy. For their blogs, I have noticed that for some stories they only have a couple of sentences and a link. The sentence that they show is the most interesting sentence in the whole article but since the information is so little, you are forced to click on the link to continue to read. Due to the links, the author of the blog has an easier job. Instead of writing a whole article about another article, they can simply post a link for all to read the original article and call it a day. That saves the author plenty of time for other projects or to take a nap! This new press sphere is among blogs more than newspapers. I’ve noticed some changes to New York Times, but not many.