March Madness is among is and everywhere you look you are seeing stories and signs dealing with the very awaited NCAA Basketball Tournaments. Brackets are being filled and people are losing sleep over the anticipated wins. Print articles and online articles can tend to be different. I examined an article from USA Today, and I looked over an online blog dealing with the NCAA Tournaments. Both differ greatly in the layout, style, and speech. The USA Today article I found is from today, March 30Th, 2006. The name of the article is, "For Players' Parents, few Perks from NCAA", by Steve Weiberg. The article is featured on the front page of the newspaper and has graphics of basketballs and a colored picture of the crowd at an NCAA game. I used Google to search for an NCAA Basketball blog, and found a great one at, http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/ncaa/. This blog is produced by Dustin Dow, and Jennifer Scroggins. The blog, titled, "NCAA Hoops Blog", has been around since March of 2005. The layout of the blog is different from the newspaper article, being that it is online text and you can scroll down instead of turn a page, however it's not that different. Their layout is basic with the text of their posts, each one having a title and a date with it. The one thing that is different about the layout of the blog is that it doesn't have any visuals with it, photos and such, like the print article did. Although the layouts don't differ that much, the tone and the way the articles are written do differ. With an online blog, of course the tone is going to be more relaxed than a print article in a well established newspaper. In the NCAA blog, Dow talks about personal experiences too, which is a big difference. Authors of print articles are getting paid to just deliver the news, but blogs deliver news on a more personal level, we actually know a little bit about the author, and know their views on certain things. Blog articles on this page also are short, compared to the longer articles you will find in the newspapers. With the growing of technology, there has been a change in how news is spread and what medium is more popular to read and look to for information on event and news. I believe that blogging is rising to the top of the mediums that offer people present news on a lot of different areas. Newspapers I feel will be around for a while, because they are traditional, cheap, and educational, however the new generations are learning to lean towards blogging and people are beginning to make their own blogs. Newspapers have been around for a while, and were the main source of how people figured out what was going on around them. In, "From Thomas Paine to Blogs and Beyond", the author states that, "Newspapers flourished throughout the 19th century...The best were aggressive and timely, and ultimately served their readers well...Newspapers have provoked public opinion for as long as they've been around" (Pages 2, 3). Some people can argue however that although these two mediums (journalism vs blogging) are different and conflicting, they can actually help each other out. Ruby Sinreich, a blogger states that, "Political and issue-oriented blogging is made possible largely by the work of professional journalists and researchers. While bloggers tend to be quite discriminating in our choice of media, we often do rely on local and national newspapers as well as specialized outlets for our sources of information" ("Moving Past the Blog vs. Journalism Debate"). I think that overall, with the ongoing debate over journalism vs. blogging, that they both will still influence whoever they are aiming to. Blogging may become more popular just because more and more people are using the Internet in their everyday lives for hours and end, but either way we still get accessible information. So unless you are a journalist or a strong blogger, I don't think you have anything to worry about.
Dow, Dustin, and Jennifer Scroggins. "NCAA Hoops Blog." 30 Mar. 2007. 30 Mar. 2007
Gillmor, Dan. "From Tom Paine to Blogs and Beyond." O'Reilly.Com. 30 Mar. 2007
Sinreich, Ruby. "Moving Past the "Blogs Versus Journalism" Debate." Lotus Media 2.0. 19 Oct. 2006. 30 Mar. 2007
Wieberg, Steve. "For Players' Parents, Few Perks From NCAA." USA Today 30 Mar. 2007, sec. 1A: 1.
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