Sunday, August 19, 2012

5. How Palestinian Bloggers Cover Protests in Their Own Villages


                Leeor Kaufman has obviously spent some time in the Middle East, taking pictures and learning of the troubles there.  This article describes an even that seemed important to him in his latest visit.  It talks of a man who ran into a cloud of tear gas and how blogging in the Middle East has become so big.  It is how people communicate what they are going through to the world.  Kaufman kept this article really short, but its message is strong.  He asks questions, as if to the reader, about how he could possibly make his articles better.  Because so many people over there use blogs to reach out, he wants to know if when he does measures up to what they do.  It is almost challenging, reading his questions.  It makes the reader feel more connected to the article, making it stand out more.  He also talks of a cycle regarding all that’s happening and the publicity that it gets, which is very interesting to read about.  Kaufman wants to know why there needs to be people like him going out and getting the pictures when there are so many bloggers already doing what he’s doing.  Their media outlet is very detailed and contains a lot of information, and they do it for free.  They don’t get paid to blog; they just do it because they need help.

                Kaufman quotes people there that he’s talked to, and describes instances with contacts and friends.  This makes the article seem more personal.  The evidence that Kaufman uses makes it reliable and supports his main idea about the people in Palestine.  A very interesting piece of news.

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