ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a {{blog|s}} whose primary purpose is to cover current events.

Sometimes these blogs will link to a big media news story and then have a comments section on that story. People often read those for the comments. ''[[http://slashdot.org Slashdot,]]'' ''[[http://fark.com Fark]]'' and the Mexican ''[[http://www.blogdelnarco.com/ Blog del Narco]]'' are examples of this type.

Other blogs are more ideological, and the blog owner will add political commentary to the bottom of an excerpted section from the news story. ''[[http://dailykos.com Daily Kos]]'' and ''[[http://redstate.com Red State]]'' are two such examples of this second type. The second type can tend towards {{Astroturf}}, since they are often strongly associated with specific political parties.

Still others are just attempts to get Google [=AdSense=] money, where "current events" is defined as "whatever's on Google Trends that hour."

Contrast ReviewBlog, {{review}}s in blog format.

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