Who is Eason Jordan?

Eason Jordan is a former Chief News Executive for CNN. Yet he resigned in 2005 after 23 years in a effort to silence the bubbling controversy over his remarks about the U.S soldiers killing journalists in Iraq.

In a closed conference Jordan said that he knew that U.S troops deliberately had been killing journalists during the war in Iraq. Yet a blogger in the audience posted what Jordan said, from this more and more bloggers got on to this story. This lead to big media attention, so then Jordan resigned saying he wanted to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished.

Natalie Theo's Fashion Blog

Natalie Theo has been the Daily Mail's Fashion Editor for the past four years. Natalie started her blog when she found the newspaper didn't give her enough space to inform us all of all the fashion tips and stories she had to give. I like this blog as it written so well, it's witty, full of fashion as well as clips of Natalie's fabulous lifestyle.

I decided to comment on this blog, not only as i like it, but it is similar style to the blog we wanted to achieve in our last group blog assessment. The post i decided to comment on was a post about recycling plastic bags.

The Joy of Working at Starbucks

The Joy of Working at Starbucks is a workplace blog. A form of personal journalism.

Is it Journalism?

No, although it is a good read and a bit funny at times, I don't think this is journalism. This is just a blog from someone moaning about their job, just letting off steam.

This could be turned around into Journalism though, such as high prices and the massive profits Starbucks make.

Rhys Jones News

Today the parents of Rhys Jones, the young boy who was shot in Liverpool, were in court facing the teenager accused of his murder. On August 22nd last year, 11 year old Rhys was shot in the neck as he was walking home from football training. Rhys Mother broke down in tears in court, as the teenager was remained in custody.

The murder of Rhys Jones last summer had loads of media coverage, but now the case has gone to court it has been getting loads of coverage again. Using a Google search, Rhys Jones parents in court, there are hundreds and hundreds of results. The majority of stories were from English sites such as BBC and Sky News, and lots were from English newspaper websites. But after a few pages of searching there were another international news sites covering the story such as The New York Post, Trend News and Euronews24. Yet these news sites were not up to date. They mainly were from when the murder first took place. As it is such a UK based story, it has not been followed as much as in the UK. Here its front page news that Rhys parents face the boy accused of his murder but its not as interesting outside of the UK, until the verdicts, when international news will again report on the story.

When using Google News with the same search, the results weren't as good as a standard search. I think using the standard search and skimming through all the results worked better than using Google news.