This will be my last post of the week that doesn’t involve sports. I want to get an A in my journalism class so I better complete the assignment that asks the question is blogging journalism?
My answer to that question is of course blogging is journalism. Anybody who doesn’t think that blogging is journalism is living in the past. They aren’t tuned into the real world and seeing the advancements in technology each and everyday.
The days of journalism being just articles that you skim through occasionally in the Sunday paper are over. Today people want to read information at a much faster pace. We have things like text messaging, email and internet. I believe blogs are helpful because you can provide people with information immediately after it happens. If the Red Sox hit a home run in the bottom of the 9th 5 minutes ago I could be telling everyone the story as I write this article. If I worked for a newspaper theres a chance that the story won’t even be out until tomorrow.
Now I can’t go on here and say every single blog ever made is a form of journalism. I dont believe that at all. In one of my readings it says the author of the blog has to do with whether or not it is journalism. I disagree with that. I feel if you are providing people with information in a respectable form then you are practicing journalism. Even if it is a topic that you don’t see in the paper everyday it is journalism.
Some people are so into blogging that they actually make a career out of it. In the articles I read for class I see that some people think blogs are a form of journalism while others do not. I am one of the people that think blogs are. I think the way people write on their blog may be different from the traitional journalism. I also think down the road blogs might be just as popular as your everyday newspaper. Blogging really is journalism.
September 23, 2008 at 5:35 pm
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