Mainstream Blog: CNN Political Ticker

CNN's Political Ticker described itself as having the "latest political news from CNN's Best Political Team, with campaign coverage, 24-7." Like many other mainstream blogs, this is not really a blog; it is simply a news aggregator with no analysis, blogger-reader interaction, or interaction with other blogs. However, it seems fairly objective, or as objective as CNN is in general.

What is a Mainstream blog?

The division between mainstream and independent blogs is ambiguous. However, mainstream blogs tend to have the following features:

- Put out by large corporations (like Fox News or CNN blogs) that often branch out into more capital-heavy forms of media, such as television
- Explicitly backed by corporate advertising
- Have their own website (unlike this blog)
- Produced by a group of people, usually as employment (unlike those who blog just for fun)
- Read by more people than independent blogs, because the information is seen as more credible and those people are used to these corporations in other media formats

The factual information in these blogs is usually more credible, but the opinions, biases, and analyses may be skewed differently.

With our increasingly fast journalistic practices today, the line between regular news stories and blogs is also unclear at times. However, blogs tend to have comments and a gennerally greater sense of interactivity between the blogger(s) and the blog readers.