First of all, can you differentiate blog and journalism?
Here are the definitions of blog and journalism from Wikipedia:
Blog is another word for weblog. A weblog is a website that is like a diary or journal. Most people can create a blog and then write on that blog. Bloggers (a word for people who write on blogs) often write about their opinions and thoughts.
Journalism is a type of writing. The term is used to describe the activities of newspapers, news shows on television, news shows on radio, and news magazine.
In my opinion, bloggers are not journalists. Anyone can be a blogger as long as they have a blog but not everyone can be a journalist. Blog and journalism are similarly the same as they have a variety of genres and themes. Yet, what differs a blog and a journal is the content.
Bloggers write out their interest and what they know on a particular topics. Normally, they will give their opinions and comments on the topics they write. So, blog is not only the media to tell the news, story or information to the readers, it is also a way to share and interact with the readers. Unlike journalism, the blog readers can express their thoughts and feelings by commenting the blog. Since there is no restriction on blogs, bloggers tend to write what they think and they don't have to care about the grammar and language they use. They can keep their own 'styles' of writing in their blog.
As for journalists, they have to find reliable sources and do researches before they write journalism. In the process of writing journalism, it should include when, where, who, what, why and how. The journalists are supposed to write out the facts even though sometimes they will get it wrong. They do analysis and expected to give opinion in unbiased way. Although blogs and journalism deliver message or information and achieve the same result, the readers should judge the reliability of the journalism or blog on their own.
As a conclusion, I don't think that bloggers are journalists because journalist is a profession yet blogger can be considered as a flexible job.
That's all from me. ciao.
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Yes, I do agree with you when you say that bloggers are ablr to keep their 'style' of writing whereas journalists have to follow formal report writing when covering a story. In a way journalism is very much more professional than blogging as journalists have to mind their language and grammars compared to bloggers as you have pointed out.
ReplyDeleteyup..I agree with what jing.s and just to add i think Blogging is just giving us, ordinary people, a chance to voice our opinions that we are entitled to. Journalism is there to inform others and the reporters get PAID to do it. Blogging however, I feel they comes from the writter own heart feeling.
ReplyDeleteAgree with what you said, bloggers write out their interest and what they know on a particular topics. Is way different with what journalist write.More over blogger don't need to care about their grammar mistake, but for a journalist, they will write in a formal language.
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