Blog Post 13 (2.7) Taking an Approach

Harris is a firm believer in self-interpretation and analysis and approaching a story from a unique angle. This approach to writing makes forwarding and countering much easier and much more effective and useful, and also makes for a better piece of literature all around. This form of approaching writing is more difficult because you cannot fall back on the ideas or information previously gathered by other people, but it allows for a greater impact made on the audience. The approach that is more common is following what others have written and providing a counter or agreement with the referenced works. This makes the process of getting information out to an audience much easier and faster because not as much though is required to go into it.

            The New York Times has a collection of articles that are both ideal and not in terms of Harris’s view. Many articles that the New York Times has published have been independent from most other big media posts because they are less biased and influenced by internal and external sources. They maintained a very centralized forwarding process throughout the presidential debate. They did not just attack Romney and they did not just praise Obama. They provided as close to a balanced progress of journalism as you could find in a big news organization. Although they do stick with the main crowd with many topics of discussion, that is not an issue because they are still a business and they still have to provide hundreds of articles a week. Overall, the New York Times does an excellent job in their approach to writing.