HW11: Oh My News!

The blog I chose was OhMyNews (english.ohmynews.com). OhMyNews is a site where ordinary citizens can write articles as if they were journalists in the press. Therefore, the bloggers who blog on OhMyNews are just regular folks around the world. They tackle worldly as well as national issues through open journalism which is reviewed by a team of professional editors. The blog was very helpful and it got the word of the public out in a very professional manner, which is exactly what Rebecca MacKinnon says about the blog on page 331 of Kline and Burstein's Blog! Of course, many will probably disagree with this assertion that OhMyNews helped a presidential leader gain power in South Korea with help from the public, who blogged on the site and swayed enough voters for the unpopular candidate to assure his victory.