HW11: OhmyNews

http://english.ohmynews.com/

The blog I chose to view is technically not a blog. It is actually a kind of online newspaper called OhmyNews. It looks like any other newspaper webpage as it has headings of main issues that are going on and popular stories. However, according to Rebecca MacKinnion, the newspaper has professional editors who take in thousands of submissions everday from ordinary people. She also states that it was largely because of OhmyNews that president Rohm Moo-hymn of South Korea was elected. In my opinion, MacKinnon made the site sound as if it were strictly devoted to politics and when I looked at the site for myself there were a variety of topics just like any other newspaper. There was however a place to go and chat and tell your stories to the editiors but the stories still were not political. Someone who disagrees with me might say that there are plenty of politically based articles on the website and that Hominess is a newspaper that has a variety of stories simply because its what the people talk to them about and want to hear about.