The City Room blogs from "The New York Times" posts news about happenings locally within the city, such as how students weren't happy that they didn't get a snow day after 9 inches blanketed the city, or local news, such as local trials or new bills proposed by city government, for example. I like this blog because for a paper as big as "The New York Times" presents some localized news targeted toward a more local audience, rather than only presenting national and world news, which is what most people not from New York really may see it as. However, because I'm not from the city, I'm less inclined to read it, because it's not my community.
The Quad Blog covers sports in a way that some pieces are like opinion pieces, and in other ways in which the reader learns something about the athletes, teams and/or coaches that he or she wouldn't typically find in a run-of-the-mill sports story. I do like the Quad Blog because it covers sports across the U.S., but also because of the aforementioned reason -- it's not a run-of-the-mill sports story -- it's reader friendly for someone who doesn't know as much about sports and typically doesn't read much about sports.
The Lede Blog consists of current events -- political, social, etc -- where the bloggers use facts, as they would with a news story, and add in more of their opinion not only based upon facts but also based some on the experience or encounters they have had with others close to the story. While similar to printed columns, blogs are different because they still take on more characteristics of a news story more so than columns do, at least in my opinion. I like this blog because I think it gives another perspective to the story that is happening or has just happened that doesn't always necessarily take a side.
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