BlogWonks

For your next, extra-credit post, you can do one of two things. You can get credit for finding one or two substantial blog posts by partisans on the left or right on your paper topic, and commenting on what you learned (if anything) from those posts, or discuss points made in the comments--many blogs have surprisingly erudite commenters mixed in with the "regs" (regulars) and "trolls" (usually partisan opponents who try to derail the thread or otherwise stir up trouble by making inflammatory, obscene, or off-topic comments). If you choose this option, see more instructions and links below;

OR

Examine and reflect on other media treatments of your issue online, commenting on issues of bias, subtle or plain. Thus you might consider how the media frames your issue, what it emphasizes most, what kind of balance the outlet achieves, how adversarial they are (vs. accepting the "official story"). You also might also compare coverage or reporters. For example, you might compare the AP (or other news services) and McClatchy/Ridder coverage of your issue, or compare how other online news outlets cover it: the NY Times vs. the Washington Post, CNN vs. Fox News, or international or regional coverage vs. the "MSM" (mainstream US media like the Times, USA Today, etc.).

If you choose to do the "blogwonk" assignment (many bloggers are issue "wonks"--often, they are professors or experts of some sort, or they may be educated lay-people who read obsessively about an issue for partisan or ideological reasons), I recommend starting with technorati or google's blog search function, and then use the search function on the following blogs, if you can find it:

On the left, some of the wonkiest blogs include Matt Yglesias (young nerd), Kevin Drum (older, center-left nerd), TalkingPointsMemo (reporter/blogger), Atrios (curmudgeon/economist), Ezra Klein (even younger nerd), Tapped (group blog), Brad Delong (economist) and MaxSpeak (another economist). On the right, use this list of award winners, or this one, or search google for conservative blogs. Here is a WaPo list of some of the most prominent blogs (though from 2004).