Blog Post #4

For both of my topics, if I were to use a newspaper as my offical source, I would use the LA Times review section of recently released movies, even taking a look at the box office results in the newspaper. If I were to use a newspaper for my topic, I would find the film review sections on the front page, but if I were looking for Greek mythology, the newspaper carries a museum events calnedar of events, usually dealing wuith museums and exhibit reviews, some dealing with Greek art via the Getty Center or Villa. The newspaper would carry a small snippet of mythology that may be associated with a particular piece of Greek artwork.
If my topic would be in books, any information on it that is, books would carry a broad subject of Mythology, several books deal with this concept alone, dealing with mythology in a lot of cultures ranging from Roman, Greek, Asian, etc. In books, I would find detailed, gathered information about ancient historical figures, classic heroes, epics, literature, actual recorded text from their respective time periods from certified experts in the field of ancient cultures, from history majors, university professors, people also interested in your particular topic, etc.
If you were to look for your particular topic in blogs, you would get personal opinion, not much historical references, mostly research that the person who owns the blog gathered themselves off the internet from professional sources. Blogs would usually be certified by professionals who post it mainly as educational purposes, could be certified by historical documents collected, that would include detailed info gathered on certain subjects in history, documented texts that existed at the time, and images and artwork associated with that particular person.

The most important information these cites offer include:
TV, Radio and Internet news sites report basic facts of a particular subject or event.
News media also includes professional and expert opinion.
Magazines publish analysis of the cause of the event or subject in question.
Social networking cites, in this case, blogs and chat rooms, feature discussion of facts and opinions mostly. As a result, all of the information found here are in a state of bias opinion.
Academics and experts in different fields begin research and experiments and studyign various aspects of a particular topic. These usually appear in scholarly journals, though it is more focused on analysis. Scholars often summarize their findings in books, according to the website <http://www.lib.uci.edu/how/tutorials/LibraryWorkshop/info_6.html>

General facts and overviews of a topic appear in print and online references such as encyclopedias, textbooks and dictionaries. >

Basic facts and overviews for reference material, interviews and details, editorials or opinions in newspapers amd magazines, books cover background and in-depth information, and academic articles have scholarly research and analysis
blog - facts and details at the time of event or topic
encyclopedia - analysis of trends because of topic
books - opinions about different aspects of topic
scholarly article - in depth info and historical analysis of topic
newspaper - definition and overview of event, key people involved

Kevin Bruehl