Bloggers Germain Lussier and Aaron Blake

Germain Lussier (http://www.slashfilm.com)

Germaine Lussier is a film critic and movie news blogger for Slash Film, an online film blog that covers everything movies. It contains the latest movie news and reviews along with personal columns and opionated or artistic articles that cover anything in the film universe. His style is very distinct in his reviews, blending verbose descriptions of film techniques while throwing in cheeky one-liners and easy-going conversational points that include the reader. Everyone likes to "talk movies", so he blends an obvious advanced opinion with everyday "popcorn chat". When it comes to his coverage of movie news, it is pure personal rambling, shown how he expresses his torn feelings about J.J. Abrams directing the Star Wars Episode VII. Lussier writes out of Los Angeles, California, the heart of the film industry. He graduated New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Cinema Studies program in 2002. After many years of moving around among blogs and online podcasts, he is now a head writer at SlashFilm, which is linked to The New York Times, The Wallstreet Journal, The Guardian and has been featured on many lists for top movie blogging websites. Their slogan? "Blogging the reel world."

Aaron Blake (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/blogs-columns)

Aaron Blake is a politcal blogger and writer for the blogging section in The Washington Post. He covers national politics and writes regularly for Fix, the Post's top political blog. He is a Minnesota native and graduate of the University of Minnesota. Blake has also written about politics for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and The Hill. His style is very direct and hard-hitting, and even though his writing can be very biased, he is never short on facts. He is a straightforward writer who doesn't talk around his points and instead of focusing on word choice for emphasis, he will just punch out a word in italics or use an intenional crossout. He covers everything from Romney's future and Obama's inaugural event to GOP electoral vote gambits and opinions on the debt ceiling.

Molly Oretsky
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