Are bloggers journalists?

Everyone can be a blogger nowadays, but not every blogger is a journalist. If they are, it will make everyone a journalist and the privilege becomes meaningless- who is to be trust? who is to be blame for the rumours?As such, I take my stand that a blogger is not a journalist.

As social media are gainng popularity among the younger generation nowadays when compared to the mainstream media, it is undeniable that bloggers do provide us information in a short time. However, it should not be forgotten that bloggers tend to pour in their emotion inside their article and hence might result in bias of stand.

A journalist, on the other hand is different.They are trained as a professional that collects and disseminates information in the most objective and unbiased way to serve the public good.They are paid to deliver facts, and also prepared to accept legal responsibility.

Imagine this situation: someone announces that tomorow is a public holiday on his/ her blog, will you trust this information? Well, most of us will still refer to the school/ goverment autority for comfirmation as we think it might be a joke by some prankster. The same goes to whenever we saw a blogger updated a major breaking news (such as a natural disaster/war) , we will still refer to the mainstream which is the article written by journalist for comfrimation.

Much have been argued about bloggers being journalists. In my opinion, a bloggers cannot be journalist. However, i do think it is a healthy trend that the bloggers are taking their blogs seriously, which shows that they are concern about the society around them.Along with that, it had also put some pressure on the journalists to deliver better because they are now under close observation and facing a fiercer competitor- the bloggers!