This week's entry is going to compare and contrast the difference between blogs and e-zines.
I went to Zinio.com and found a e-zine called Foreign Policy, then I went to blog.ForeignPolicy.com:
I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast the same company's blog and e-zine. I found the blog to appear as professional as the e-zine, I know this is because Foreign Policy has experts write in their blog, and that their are specific editors that work out what goes in the e-zine. I think this is one of the first blogs that I found to look and feel really professional while still having the sense of being a blog and not too professional (which some people like).
I found that the blog was a bit easier to read, but that the e-zine was more focused on certain current events while the blog was a mix of different stories with not very good composition. While they didn't strictly cover the same current events, I found them to be very similar in topics. I do believe them to be credible and trustworthy, I think that a print newspaper or magazine is just as credible as this e-zine and blog because of how experts write in both of them, and it's not just random people stating their opinion, but rather people with BA's and MD's on the topic or in political science.
I do think that this research supports my thesis because it shows I believe people to find some blogs to be just as credible as print newspapers and magazines. On a scale of 1 - 5, I would say that this research is a 4! I would still not change my thesis.
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