Monday, March 10, 2008

Finding the Biased

In this day and age, finding information on any topic that has ever been thought off is as easy as typing in a phrase on Google. Blogs are a great way to do research, because these days everyone has a blog, and they write about all the events that are going on in our society. A reader should be weary of trusting one blog, because blogs written by one author could be biased. Doing research on different topics has gotten much easier, because of so many people posting blogs. Not all the blogs that are out there are true; a lot of the blogs are biased in some way or another. Deciding on an opinionated blog like research on car or for an informational blog like news events depends on the information being researched.

For instance if someone is interested in purchasing a vehicle, but has no idea on what kind of car they want to buy, they can read about some online. If a particular vehicle caught your eye, and you want to know more, just find a few blogs with people’s opinion on the certain type of car, and see what they have to say. Usually different kind of blogs should, for example, when searching an Infiniti G35 on Google blogs; you get blogs that come up written by different authors about different aspects of the car. In one of the blogs written by The Car Family they explain the feeling that you get from sitting in the car, and they also compare the infinite to other cars like the Nissan 350z. With this blog there were also blogs that came with this one, that explain how the car performs after a year and another blog that was written about how the car performs after three years. This way the reader has a opinion of the car that they are considering to buy, after a year and after a few years.

If the research is about a certain event, it’s a good idea to search for blogs written by different authors on the same subject. On blogs, it’s never a good idea to rely on just one author when you are doing research. If you base your opinion solely on one blog, there is a great chance that the blog is biased. By reading more blogs about this event that is being researched you can have a better chance of ruling out the biased information that you found.

Since the blogs are a free form of writing, they have the greatest chance of being biased. There are no forms of regulation on the writing of blogs, anyone can just sit behind a computer and write. There is no one that proof reads them, before they are posted online. With having this freedom in writing the writer leaves their “attitude or tone [in which] they enjoy to write in.” Having the author’s feelings in their writing is great in a way to know what they were felling during the experience. Reading blogs written by the 9/11 victims are a great way to know how it felt to be there during the attack on the trade centers. There is no way the writer of a published works can leave the feeling of being there during the attack, no matter how hard they tried, because they have to fallow regulation so the they don’t leave their opinion in the paper.

All in all blogs are a great way to find opinioned information. The best is to find information on cars, and their performance from different author. They are also great to find, on how the cars will perform after a few years. Blogs are great way information but a reader should be weary of biased information; a reader could avoid biased information by reading blogs by different authors. But blogs are a great way to get the feeling of being there, which you don’t get from published writing. that’s what’s great about having the freedom of blogs.

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