Tomorrow I willl Steal Someone's Heater

Gaurdian.co.uk is a blog news site that anyone can read. Based on the bogs I have read the tone of the writers is varied by post. Posts are from soldiers telling about their day-to-day activity in Iraq. Authors will write about sadness in one blog, yet in the next a soldier speaks of how much he loves being over in Iraq. One author writes about living in an abandoned house, eating their food, and enjoying what they had left behind. The soldier will go out and pilfer for mattresses and heaters to help them become semi-comfortable in the night. Reading these blogs reminded me that the soldiers are just like you and I in Iraq. They need food, sleep, and entertainment. The army did not change them to dislike those activities. It made possible to imagine myself there, searching along for mattresses, fearing the next day’s battle. From that aspect alone I believe that this blog has a positive effect of readers. The emotions evoked after reading allows you to empathize and support the troops, thus making the blog a success. This goal seem very different then the rest of the news blog’s stories. It seems as if they allow Iraqi blogs become an opinion piece whereas the rest of their post are more fact based.