Countering

Harris’ writing about Countering almost sounded very similar to debating but when done in the way Harris explains, it will add to the conversation rather than making it like a win/lose debate. With Countering instead of justifying what you have just read you take the idea and add your own spin on it that may disagree with what the writing is saying but done to add new ideas to the conversation and to get the writer to possible think differently about what they originally wrote. Harris justifies this idea when he says countering, “suggest a different way of thinking.” This idea seems to be key when powerful writers in blogs are talking about something in the National news or about something from a reliable source, because if the writer just refuses the original idea in all ways and does not explain why he thinks the way he does, and how his ideas are better than others, then the blogger may seem ignorant and closed minded so no one will want to go there to get a full perspective on a topic. In a way Countering can help try to stop bias and help people look at things from a more similar view. Countering gains a lot of new ideas about a topic and helps give it a lot freedom to go in many different directions, but Countering can possibly lead to the loss of ideas and may get people looking in too many different directions leaving people with no idea what to believe.