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Blog log 2 – Sports related head injuries

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This article caught my eye because I am a big sports fan.  I knew thru other news stories that football was the worst sport for head injuries and long term brain trauma, however what caught my eye was that soccer, which is my favourite sport, has the second highest rate for head injuries behind football, according to this article.  I liked how the author expresses the information by using many facts and statistics to back up the story.  This article reminded me of how when I used to play soccer, some of my teammates got concussions.  I personally never got a concussion, however I know people who have had to quit due to getting serious concussions concussions.

Blog log 1 – Internet as political media

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This article interested me because it illustrates how the internet can be used as a tool for political reasons.  The quality of this article was very good because the author remained objective and presented points from both sides.  In the article, a man was sent to jail for a month for just a simple tweet, which made me think about how in our world right now, we do not have a lot of free speech. The article really made me think about our modern society and how almost everything, such as political issues, are using the internet as their primary media to achieve a particular political agenda.  I also thought about how the internet makes it a lot harder to find meaningful news that you are 100 percent sure is unbiased and real, because with the internet there also comes a lot of fake news and it is hard, at times, to differentiate between the good and the bad.