The Guardian’s stab at the political blog section. (“They have the internet on computers now.”)
Going on to this for the first time- the much noted and praised Guardian newspaper website- the ‘political blog’ section is quite hap-hazard and confusing. Fair enough, it doesn’t possess aesthetic positives in any great sense, but there must be a reason why the site wins as many plaudits as it does:
Michael White seems to be the most championed and promoted blogger on the site, so naturally we should start with him. The natural assumption I think I can make is that of what a Guardian writer is- a left-wing idealist writing for a left-wing idealist paper. But enough about the organisation that is the Guardian itself- White writes some incisive stuff, British politics of course, and is everything I have come to expect from anything associated with the publication. His experience as a reporter in the newspaper world has transferred over to the online world- showing that the principles of both run the same lines and have the same boundaries and opportunities.
What must be noted is his obvious use of linking throughout the blog- with what seems lile every third phrase a link to another fact-based incisive piece (probably by white himself) on a barely relevant topic. Your mind might get somewhat confused by the red-black colour scheme this produces- if you were not aware of the “benifits” of online ‘fluid’ content.
