In my opinion, Sullivan's ideas of blogging in his article "Why I Blog", help support Jarvis' models, and vice versa. Sullivan uses blogging as a way to escape the uptight pressures of the press and to share his thoughts directly with the public. This coincides with Jarvis' model "The Me Sphere" because it, too, puts the public in the center with influences from many news source outlets surrounding it. Both Jarvis and Sullivan convey to their audiences that the discourse of news has changed as we enter the technological age.
Jarvis' models, particularly "The New News Model", are able to support Sullivan's ideas of blogging because they convey a similar story line to that which Sullivan describes in his blog. Many of the same characteristics of blogs, mentioned by Sullivan, are key in the makeup of the news model. One of Sullivan's favorite features of the blogging world is the ability to hyperlink additional information to your blog topic. Jarvis mentions this as an aspect to story writing. A major aspect both writers have in common is the belief that stories, especially those related to the news, no longer have a clear cut beginning and end. Stories are now expounded on after additional information is found. Jarvis mentions, "Now a story never begins and it never ends." The same can be said for blogs. Andrew Sullivan has the ability to return to any of his blog posts and revise them with new information, or even write a new post discussing new leads, follow-up, and corrections, all traits mentioned by Jarvis in the new way of writing a news story.
