Blogging: Chapter Four
I definitely think that bloggers are journalists. It doesn’t make sense why some people don’t believe they are. The only difference is a few years in school. Who says an average, non-degree, person can’t write down a few facts on something they witnessed and pass it off for being news?
I think the only qualification for being a journalist is that you have to be there while its happening. I mean, these people were. So were these. The first few messages/updates/facts about what was happening were from bloggers.
I thought it was really cool that a blogger can get enough readers to fund his trip to Iraq to report the war. He was a reporter.
Maybe the only difference people see in the blogger/reporter debate is the energy put into the report. A “reporter” will put in more time than a “blogger.” But we can see this isn’t always the case.
Bloggers are starting to make their appearance though. Invites to the White House, going to Iraq.
I agree with the final statement. More blogs=more news.
There is no difference.
