Forwarding

Forwarding is commonly associated with e-mail. When someone wants to view an e-mail that you have, you can just forward them the e-mail. Harris' idea of forwarding is similar. Harris' idea includes the recirculation of ideas in writing. He talks about using learned information from various other sources or voices and incorporating it in your writing. It is a way of taking in information that other people put out there and incorporating that information into writing.

The Bleacher Report has a small example of forwarding. Little is lost in this sites forwarding, but much is gained. The site provides so much information on the topic of soccer. There are trade rumors, game break-downs, and many other SportsCenter-esque topics. The only things that are lost in the Bleacher Report are the original sources. The posts do not have a link to the original site or do they cite where the information is from.

There are a few things that are altered in The Bleacher Report. First of all, bias. There could be little to no bias in a story when it gets to the Bleacher Report blogger. They could warp the it into a completely biased, one-sided story. Also, they could leave out quite a few details in their post. Most of the posts are less than 100 words. This could potentially leave out a few major details. 

One thing the The Bleacher Report does well in the view of forwarding is the ability to leave comments. Although those comments are usually left by sports readers who, to put it simply, are quite dumb and insulting. They are not very creative in their insults to other teams and they think that their opinion is always right. Despite the ability to leave comments, many of the comments are "collapsed." This means that they were flagged for content or that they were taken down from the website due to profanity. But profanity and sports will always go hand in hand.