This blog is a
continuation of the first TMZ blog, due to the length going over the
recommended amount.
The TMZ blog and comments from readers do adhere to the
code in a way that it is not extremely toxic, and has a fine balance of sorts.
Death wishes are not tossed back and forth; the most is just offensive
bantering. Maybe the Code is being adhered, where the inappropriate comments
are being deleted before seen by too many, explaining the lack of overly harsh
statements.
TMZ itself is not an overly polite site, it constantly
blogs on the ‘dirty laundry’ of celebrities. Just on the front page, gossip on
numerous celebs including Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashin, and Pamela Anderson is displayed,
with bold headlines and criminalizing photos. Although this format of blogging
may not be the most courteous, it does execute it’s sole task well… It allows
an instant explosion of gossip information, article headings and pictures serve
well to spoon feed readers the social update needed. In this sense, the blog is
very successful in online communication.
After reading Crystal’s analysis on blogging in Language and the Internet, I can match
TMZ to the statements made in the article. Just as Crystal stated, discourse is
constantly present in the blog, which seem more like streams of thought. This
also touches on the way the blogs are written; non-standard English. Unlike
Standard English, the non-standard counterpart departs itself of its norms of
orthodox writing; less like a text, more like a conversation in real life. Crystal
also claims that blogs increasingly became sources of news instead of
reflections of it, this is shown through TMZ, as it’s community of users use
the site purely as a celebrity news update.
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