When In Doubt: Venn Diagram.

I have been considering how to answer this post all day. I have spent most of that time attempting to find a deeper relationship between the New York Times, The Ville Voice, and Instapundit than the obvious; they all help in the dissemination of news. I soon realized that once you got down to the basic core of this relationship, the spread of news was the strongest bond. All three of these sites focus on news updates, most commonly about politics, be it state or national level, and contribute the occasional, slightly off topic yet informative story. Each of the three news gatherings offers a collaboration from several different authors or sources so readers receive a variety of opinions instead of the constant lean towards one side or the other.

How the three sites are related to press spheres and news ecologies depends entirely on who is interpreting the information. All of these news sources could be considered an integral aspect to the "me sphere", each site having a certain level of influence over the individual. All three use a form of the "new news sphere" to write, or follow-up, on a story. The consistency of each individual aspect, however, cannot easily be determined. Each story that is written using that sort of time line will use certain characteristics of the "new news sphere" model, depending on the popularity and audience of the topic. While all three sites evaluate similar topics, the way they use the press sphere models and the news ecology differs immensely. Each news outlet is constantly changing the way the press sphere is used in the spread of their information, as the press' effect on the public changes on, what seems a daily basis.