When comparing the New York Times to the blogs that I have been following, I would say that they are quite different, yet I also feel that they harmonize with each other. The two blogs that I am following are Andrew Sullivan’s “Daily Dish,” as well as a site called “Xtreme Music.” Andrew Sullivan mostly comments on a lot of the issues that appear in the New York Times. However the New York Times is strictly factual whereas the Daily Dish is mostly opinionated. I’d say that “Xtreme Music” is a major oddball compared to the other two resources. It is only focused on rock music news. Most of the stories that I read about on this blog site cannot be found in the New York Times. However, news is news and it doesn’t matter how or where you get it, as long as you are learning new things that relate to your interests.
Concerning the overall press sphere, I feel that Sullivan’s blog and the New York Times complement each other because one is giving the news story and the other is acting as a filter to make the news story more understandable or to present an opinion of the news story. One can form their own opinions based on other people’s opinions, in this case, Sullivan. When it comes to Xtreme Music, it contributes to the press sphere by offering a different genre of news. Where the New York Times offers a broad perspective in many different areas of news, Xtreme Music offer a detailed perspective on only one category of news.
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I think your last paragraph is the strongest, Jeff. There you are really focusing on the relationship of the specific blogs to the Times. The idea of blogs as filtering the news seems appropriate or, in the case of Xtreme Music, blogs as augmenting the news.
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