Blogosphere Rhetorical Analysis

In this Essay I will be explaining the argument of Alvin Goldman who thinks that blogosphere has no value. I will then be describing David Coadys argument and how he believes that the Blogosphere does have value. I will then talk about Goldman and how I believe that his argument makes the most sense and how I agree with him. Alvin Goldman thinks that the reason why people aren’t engaging in the newspaper in the United States, is due to the fact of the growing popularity of the internet or blogosphere and what it has to offer, and the newspaper has less credibility than it once did. Goldman states people are not engaging in the newspaper as they once did and people are focusing more on the internet or blogosphere it is a threat to traditional …show more content…
(Coady, 2011, p. 279) Journalists that are doing their jobs get paid to do their work with precision, giving time to both sides of the story they just don’t pick and choose what side they want to write about, and they don’t use their bias to stop them from writing about one side more than the …show more content…
They need each other creating a give and take relationship. “It is true that the blogosphere is not entirely independent of the conventional media; in this sense there is no such thing as a pure blogosphere. But it is also true that the contemporary conventional media is not entirely independent of the blogosphere; there is no longer any such thing as a pure conventional media either” (Coady, 2011, p. 288) The conventional media needs the blogosphere to stay up and running, and the blogosphere need the conventional media to get their resources and latest news to blog