Response 2 satire blogs

After Robert Mackey came to speak to our class about blogging as a form of journalism and his blog 'The Lede' with The New York Times, I was curious to compare some of the blogs I look at occasionally and compare them to Mr. Mackey's sense of a blogs purpose.
Mackey believes that a blog is more of a conversation with your readers, and doesn't always have to follow the rules and structure of printed articles, he said the experience of reading a blog is more akin to seeing a journalist notebook, and because of accesibility, information can be shared before it is completely refined or proven.
Mackey spoke of the advantage of having a 24 cycle of news available on the internet, and I was really interested in his example of the shooting at Fort Hood, and how is first blog entry which was posted the day of the shootings on November 5, 2009 around 4pm, just states the known facts, and though he updates throughout the night as the press and media outlets learn more, he does not edit his previous statements because at the time they were written his words were the known truth, and in a sense that makes him a curator of the events, and looking back now you can follow the confusion of the day, which I feel gives it an even more honest sense than a neat, organized article that would appear in a paper the next day.


Now Mackey's blog is more serious and news based, and comparing it to many of the blogs geared at my generation, you can see they fall into a more syterical variety. A blog called 'Hipster Runoff' is a blog meant to mock the fashion, music and general attitude of the hipster culture. The blog, which in this article describes the art of simply being alive, pokes fun at how seriously the hipster society takes itself. Even though this blog is a joke, it still represents the news and happenings of a specific subculture, and in some ways is still as legitimate as Mr. Mackey's 'The Lede,' because even through satire a reader can learn and become informed.