Comparing the New York Times against Hot Air and Rotten Tomatoes? They are wildly different in almost everything other than the fact that all of them provide some sort of news. New York Times is updated regularly – ‘regularly’ meaning as soon as an article can be posted up. Rotten Tomatoes is the closest to the New York Times in this category. It updates frequently, not as often as the New York Times, but it is definitely closer than Hot Air. All of them are updates frequently enough to be a good news source though.
The New York Times is thorough while both Hot Air and Rotten Tomatoes are not. The Times’ purpose is to inform about everything and is therefore very thorough about the topics it pulls up. It has its own sections of traditional news, news that you expect to hear (example: global events), and it has its fair share of entertainment news that includes all topics from politics to books to music and movies. Hot Air and Rotten Tomatoes are specific. They address political and movie issues respectively.
These differences are actually good, in a way. This is because while the New York Times covers what it sets out to, the information presented is much more general because of its global reach. Addressing movies, Rotten Tomatoes is much more specific and therefore more detailed. The same is true for Hot Air which addresses issues in politics. So, if one wanted to find movie or politic specific information, the blogs would be their best bet, while if they wanted to know world events, the Times could help them. Or they could read both blogs and the Times. These differences actually work together to create a “press sphere” as Jarvis would define it since people would go to different sources of news to get detailed news on their pick.
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