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may be provided Passage Passage 1 The onine news and commentary forums known as blogs (a term derived from "web log") are not only more open than traditional media but are also a better arena for argument. Newspapers, magazines, a broadcast media involve one-way communication from the originator of the content to the readers or audience. To be sure, there are letters to the editor, but blogs are more fundamentally are engaged in continual debate with each other Many blogs also have comments sections nonbloggers to join the conversation. The result is a much more freewheeling, egalitarian form of communication than one finds in the traditional media nd dialogic. Bloggers Passage 2 In terms of how they treat substantive ideas, blogs are not very different from newspapers they present an idoa and then move on, as quickly as possible, to the next idea. No one seems to be willing to chew over even a very substantive blog entry for very long, instead, we want new ones Blogs remain great for presenting news political, technological, artistic, whatever. But as vehicles for the development of ideas they are woofully deficient and will necessanly remain so until they become less bound by the demands of urgency Even on the best academic sites, what happens more often than not is the conversion of realy good scholars into really lousy journalists Question The author of Passage 1 argues that blogs are "a better arena for argument than are traditional media because blogs o promote interaction between wniters and readors o emphasize controversial topics intograte other forms of media give authors more freedom in choosing wrilting projects

Answer 1

Answer: Promotes interactions between writers and readers.

( As mentioned in the above paragraph, the blogs have comment section through which non bloggers can interact with the writer)