Are Bloggers Journalists? --- o.O???

Here come the 2nd topic--- ARE BLOGGERS JOURNALISTS? WHAT DO YOU TAKE ON THIS?

For me, blogging is not journalism.

In this digital age a lot of people get their information and news from internet including blogs and journalism.
As my opinion, bloggers and journalists aren’t exactly the same. Blogging is certainly a newer type of writing style. A blogger writes out of passion, out of an extreme interest for a particular topic such as their daily feeling or some gossip. So when I ask :" how many of you have a blog?" I am sure that out of ten people nine hands went up! This is because most of the bloggers tend to write what they know, think and feel. That why its attract more people to read and write through blogging.

If I am blogging about my own opinions and feelings, and I am clear about the fact, then it doesn’t matter what I write. It’s whatever is happening inside my own head, and people are forewarned.
Meanwhile, journalists are supposed to give facts, and unfortunately don’t always get them correct.
Its not same as blogging, you don’t have to wait for the editor to review it and then wait for the next day for it to be printed in the newspaper, its just type and click post and you’re done. That’s the new form of journalism, not so much the “blog”. Through journalism, it is held to the higher standard because if you don’t like the content or nature of discourse it promotes you will not read it. As a journalism, they takes some skill, however I do believe they play a fairly important role in providing sometimes useful or interesting information, via the web and  I always considered journalist as writers. As we can see, many traditional journalists have made a significant investment in their careers, in educational and financial terms. There is no barrier to entry with blogging.

On the other hand, most of the journalists were being told what to write about and had no interest in it. Basically this is the main difference between journalism and blogging to me. Journalism is there to inform others and the reporters get PAID to do it. Blogging however, its feel comes from the heart. People blog to inform sometimes but are definitely not getting paid for it.

As a conclusion :

 Bloggers write because they want to. Journalists write to get paid, because it is their job.