Critique of A Blog

I have chosen a blog that had been created by a journalist, which the content is about the Iraqi war. I am going to introduce this special blog, because this blog is about politics, it's the real voice from that eventful place. it can be linked here:http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ , I knew this blog from class Communication Environment 3.

Obviously, Internet is a good place to express people's opinions, whatever they want to say. So, for journalists, blog is a new format to speak their political ideas. The author of this blog is a female journalist, who is living in Iraq, so the name of her blog is call Baghdad Burning.
According to the critiques, the content of her blog is the most important thing. She had posted in 2003, all posts of her blog are about Iraq, which is a country fighting with the United States and have a lot of disease. Her blog is like a dairy format, it recorded all her pieces of her life. For instance, there is a post called Leaving Home, which recorded every pieces of life before she left home, for instance, how she picked up her stuff. In addition, her analysis of war affairs was in details and she often gives some her opinions, which could reflect her real ideas. For example, her description of how they cross the Iraq boarder, she described both their facial emotion, and in her heart she was so nervous, so that she did not see those soldiers. Every detail was described very clearly. Another post of her is called The rape of Sabrina, which was exploring some things that are hidden. There is an Iraqi girl who was raped by security forces. Actually those people who are to against US president. After raping, this raped girl became the bravest girl in Iraq, because she used her real name to tell her story, however, this girl thought that it was her shame, when she told her story, she covered her face. From her j-blog, it can be seen clearly that online audiences can read a blog with real political ideas and they will know more truth that sometimes will be hidden. Meanwhile, her j-blog is not influenced by the gatekeeping theory too much; she can free to publish her political points. Furthermore from her blog, readers can link other media's websites, such as BBC news, NY times, etc.

In conclusion, I like this blog so much, I an also touched by this blog, I thought that as a girl, she was living and working in a eventful place, it means she is so brave, every body knows that Iraq is not a safety place to stay, but she knows she is a journalist, and her responsibility is to report the real story to public and make readers know the truth. This girl spoke their real point of views of politics, she brought our to reality, and made me know lots more stories that we couldn't know from the mainstream media.

Last Post?

No, this won't be my last post, although this semester will come to an end. From this May, I started my first English blog on My Space, which is also my first blog, before I'd never had a blog, even Chinese one. Why did I decide to create a blog? Because once, a friend of mine asked me, have you got a blog, cos I want to have a look. I answered, sorry I haven't got one. After that, I decided to create one. Now, the e-blog is my second blog, but this one is like homework, hahaha.... I still pay more attention to it.

I don't think this is my last blog on this blog, cos this is the only one blog that share with all my dear classmates, this blog is like a "clue", I can contact with them, may be someday, we seperate, we can see each other's blog and have a look what's going on. So, I hope all classmates keep posting. Now, I am listening to What's going on while posting.

This morning was a peak hour for us, cos last night most of us didn't sleep. The main reason was we haven't finished the last big essay, which was 2000 words, wow... this was our first time to wrte many words. Most of us finished this essay at this morning, I finished at 4.00am. Actually, last night, suddenly, one opera song appeared in my mind, Messun Dorma! Yes, this one, I think it's sooooooooooo suiting our situation, so on my MSN mood box, I typed it! In opera Turandot, the princess can't fall asleep for some reasons, however, we can't sleep because of essay, hahaha...

Last week of this semester!

This week is week 13, which is the last week of this semester. It means, after this week, the holiday will be coming. For us, it means we will be far away from assignment temporarily. For myself, I will be going home on Saturday morning. What a wonderful thing!!! I think this semester is better, cos we tried some new areas of Communication, the most interesting thing is the podcast, cos although I've got an iPod, actually I didn't know what podcast is and didn't know how to listen to podcast. However, in class COMM315, I understood podcast and learnt some theory of sound, actually, I thought sound is really wonderful. I knew the highest and lowest sound that human beings can hear, from 20 to 20khz. I also learnt how to make a podcast in Garage band, it's soooooooo interesting, I wish I had a Mac and do it at any time, haha.

Another interesting thing should be the film making in class COMM 31 6. This is my first time to operate a video camera, before I thought it's difficult to use and it's so magic, but when I studied the professional words and knew the basic knowledge, any difficulties disappeared, cos I thought it's not difficult. Our group took a five minutes about Magic Power, this experience is very important for me and it's unforgettable. Like Julia saying, studying Communication can have lots of fun, I must admit.

Now, at the moment, I haven't yet finished an assignment about blogger and politics, which is so boring, but I have to do it, I think my motivation is going home, so I will overcome any troubles. Only one more week, I can go home, I am soooooooooo happy, I will my parents and friends so much, I often dream them. Next Sunday, I will arrive at my lovely home, suddenly, I remembered one movie called Sweet Home Alabama, I think this move can reflect my emotion.