Blog in another term, weblog, is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent entry to the older entries. (Rowse, 2005). Blogs can also ranger from personal diaries or journals to sophisticated social annotations and politic news coverage. (Sachirato, 2009).
As blogs became better known in the late 1990s, many began to describe this rapid expanding and popularity of blogging as blogosphere. (Sachirato, ibid). According to BlogPulse (2011), it was stated that in the year 2011, there is approximately 156 million public blogs exists worldwide. This proves that there has been roughly 152 million blogs created since the year of 2004.
In Malaysia, there is some news which meant to be published and some news are meant to go right into the trash column. According to France (2011), he mentioned that Malaysia mainstream media is largely government-linked and controlled through printing permits like Printing Presses and Publication Act 1984. Malaysia has censored much mainstream news that was supposed to be published.
Therefore, political blogs is created to filter in news that was supposed to be known to the public. In Malaysia, bloggers like Lim Kit Siang, Winter Wong and Jeff Ooi are political blogs that reveal news that is hidden from the mainstream media and gives opportunity for the public to voice out. It creates a public sphere an arena that facilitates the public use of reason in national-critical debate that has been steadily narrowing as the power and reach of mass media increased. ( Noughton, 2006) . According to Harbermas’s normative notion of the public sphere, the notion of public sphere is part of social life where citizen exchange views on matters of importance to the common good, so that the public opinion can be formed. (Thornton, 1996).
Blogging is a new organism that has arrived to our media ecosystem. It is an essentially symbiotic relationship that is emerges between the new medium of blogging and more conventional print journalism that is beneficial to us. (Noughton, 2006).
References List
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2. Sachirato.T , 2009, The practice of Public Opinion and the Production of Consent,Media and the Public Sphere, Oxford University Press, South Mlebourne.
3. Naughton, J, 2006, Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem, viewed on 14th August 2011,
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