Pick at least two blogs, with at least one from this list, to follow. Be warned that some of these may be more reputable than others.
Post on your own blog a short entry listing the blogs you are following and why.
Much of this list was taken from the "Blogs 101" article from The New York Times. You also might want to check The Opinionator if you're ever looking for a convenient collection of contrasting opinions from the blogosphere.
The blogs:
AmericaBlog John Aravosis. Politics from the left.
Big Government
Crooks and Liars and politics, with a liberal slant. And a great collection of video clips.
Daily Dish Andrew Sullivan on conservative, religious and gay issues. (He tried to stop but couldn't.)
Daily Kos Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. One of the best-known liberal blogs.
Fire Dog Lake
FiveThirtyEight
Glenn Greenwald
Hot Air
The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington's celebrity blogfest
InstaPundit Glenn Reynolds. One of the best-known conservative blogs.
Kausfiles Mickey Kaus's mostly political blog on Slate
Little Green Footballs
Matthew Yglesias
Michelle Malkin
MyDD Jerome Armstrong and Chris Bowers.
New Majority
Power Line One of the more widely read blogs from the right.
Red State
ScotusBlog and the related Supreme Court Nomination Blog are keeping a close watch on the proceedings in the court.
Talking Points Memo Joshua Micah Marshall. Widely read liberal blog from a contributor to Washington Monthly and The Hill.
Think Progress
World Net Daily
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Is there anything that is not politics?
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you asked this, Elvis. The simple answer is, no. This is a mandatory political list.
ReplyDeleteI want you all to follow at least one political blog because politics are so closely related to news coverage. I am sure that there will be some connection between the stories that you are reading in The New York Times and the topics discussed on these blogs. The more that those intersect, the easier it will be for you all to follow their relationship in blog posts and in your extended essay. That final essay is on tracing the iterations of a news story as it bounces from paper to blog to blog to paper and so on. You'll want to be reading with an eye for such stories. We'll talk more about this in class.
You also are allowed to pick one blog not on this list. If, for example, you are really into science issues, then you might pick a science blog. You would then want to read more closely science news, such as that in the Times. You are welcome to follow the iterations of science news stories. (The H1N1 vaccines would be a strong candidate.) I'm just not sure they would be as lively as the more political ones, so I wanted you all to be reading political blogs to give us some common topic and topic insurance.
Thanks for asking this, Elvis. I'll try to remember to bring it up in class.