DUE THURSDAY, NOV. 15TH
After reading at least two of the articles below, describe the conflict between traditional journalism and blogging or "citizen journalism." React to the controversy by arguing for one of the two sides. How has blogging harmed or helped journalism today?How Blogging Changed Journalism - by Chris Mooney, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Kevin Sites and the Blogging Controversy - by Susan Mernit, Online Journalism Review
Blogging, Journalism and Credibility - by Rebecca MacKinnon, The Nation
Blogging as a Form of Journalism - by J.D. Lasica, Online Journalism Review
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After reading How Blogging Changed Journalism - by Chris Mooney, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, I was rather intrigued by what he wrote. I must admit I am not a avid blogger, but I love to read other peoples blogs,for example Perez Hilton. He has a huge sense of humor and states his opinion, but at the same time he is relaying infromation. In my personal opinion, I think blogging is a way for people to get themselves heard. I am all for blogging I think that its the new way of communication to a mass public. Chris Mooney said this is a internet era we are in, I truley believe him. Recently I saw a commerical for Pizza Hut, in the commercial you can now log online and order pizza. If thats not the internet era, then I dont know what is. What I love about blogging is that there is substance, but its not formal journalism. I think many people can relate to blogging more then traditional journalism. In my opinion with blogging it might spark an increase in readers. I think blogging can help journalist for the mere fact everyone is online, the majority of teens are on line searching the web. A interesting blog that has humor but still gets the point across will attract more readers, hands down. I think blogging has helped journalism today and has expanded their readers
After reading two of the articles, how blogging changed journalism almost and Kevin Sites and the Blogging Controversy. It showed that blogging is giving traditional journalism a bit of competition in reporting the news.
Traditional journalism is considered more establishment base reporting while blogging is reporting base on ordinary citizens giving you their own point of view on the news, or topic. Big news companies such as C.N.N and AOL consider blogging not a reliable source for the news, as it is reporting based on the point of view of the person who owns the blogging site, and sometimes is not back by true facts.
But I believe blogging as any new media evolves after sometime and becomes part of mainstream media. I stand on the side of blogging because it is the general point of view on the news, which sometimes traditional news organization does not report. On bias news reporting I consider real journalism which sometimes you don’t get from the traditional journalism. Blogging is also fast medium of delivering the news, because all the owner of the blog site needs is a computer, and the information to update the blog.
Traditional news companies’ think that some blog sites need some one to edit the information before it is up loaded to the site. I think once the information is verified there is noting wrong with citizens reporting the news on their blog.
Blogging is also coming a part of mainstream reporting because some of the news organizations such as MSNBC have a blog as a medium of getting their news out to the public. Blogging is a welcome sign of the changing informational media landscape. Blogging is also helping shape the public views on news and political prospects.
This is Tawasi
after reading 2 of these articles i see that blogging is the new craze and its taking over traditional journalism. To me I believe I'm in btween the fence. I'm not a big fan of Blogging or Traditional journalism, but traditional journalism is something that has always been around and is something i grew up with so i'm a little bit more used to it and i trust it more because blogging is more he said she said from regular people. Just like other big companies i feel that some blogs are unreliable and not a very good source. On the other side of things blogging is the new style no a days and more people relate to blogs.
After using what I had read and what have already known Blogging hasnt hindered journalism at all. In actuallity I see blogging as helping jounralism a great deal. Due to blogging journalism has expanded beyond just what the news companys can see, we have now given the power to everyone with a internet connection to say the things that they have seen and feel need to be out there. Chris Mooney brings up a important point when he says that bloggers may catch things that journalists may not then journalists turn it into a story later. Susan Mernit points out that even news companys dont know, there is much conflict between the major news orgnizations over weather or not this is valid journalism. Personally I feel as though it is even though it is a very opinionated type of journalism but doesnt all journalism have someone point of view in it
Keston
After reading the articles on blogging VS Journalism which was different compinies such as CNN and other news stations saying that blogging is affecting the news journalism negitavely. I disagree with this statement because bloggers will not have the amount of censorship journalisms in companies would. In bloggs you will also have many more views and get personal information that might take too long for a journalist to cover. Another point is persons could access this type of information from anywhere in the world over the internet being the channel.
Journalism is meant to tell the truth to the public. Therefore having the public able to respond to the news, and those who were witnesses to give news is the next level of journalism. Due to blogging, anyone with access to the internet, and to the story, can become the next big thing in journalism. Chris Mooney in his article, "How blogging changed journalism," there are many people who have made a name for themselves because of their blogging. He also states that a link on their page can lead you down the quick path to fame in the journalism community. According to a quote from Paul Andrews in J.D. Lasica's paper,"it's the role of institutional media to act as gatekeepers," however because of the host of online bloggers, we can see that we have an alternative, a way to get the whole news, not just some part the media companies thought was good to be said. Thus journalism has been helped by bloggers, or at least the essence of it.
While reading the articles, I learned a lot on how blogging is taking over journalism. I don’t really agree with the entire blogging thing, but there are some many people today that are so used to putting blogs up. Even high end companies and production companies like NBC, FOX & and many others think it is okay and it helps out journalist. Then they have other companies that are so against it. (Example: CNN) In my opinion, I think it’s taking over the journalist job, but yet helping them out in some other way. To me, I am not against any of them. I am not against blogging or journalism. I think they are both a great form giving out and taking in people opinions. It’s just that many people don’t like blogging just because its all writing and they aren’t to sure if its based on true facts.
After reading the the articles, i see that the improtance of blogging is becoming well known by many. Even though i'm not a blogger,i can see the need for access to blogs. Many times the regular news outlets stay in one perspective, but blogs have many different point of views from different people all around the world. With that being said, blogging is a alternative for conventional news that often report news in the same perspective. Blogs is the new form of journalism, not saying that it is better than regular journalism, but it definitely gives a broader field witch we get or information from; and that is the great thing about it.
The controversy between journalism and blogging is that there is a debate over blogging actually being a real part of professional journalism. A lot of companies and journalists for written publications as well as broadcast aren't entirely in favor of blogging as the new means of dispersing news information to the masses.
Blogging is from the internet, which is accessible to anyone in the world that is connected to it. Blogging takes away from the privacy of local news and doesn't require you to do a lot of investigation into a story. You can post basically whatever you want to say. According to Kevin Sites article, "MSNBC, Fox News, Knight-Ridder and Advance Publications -- believe that blogs are a new and exciting form of journalism. These companies are actively bringing new blogs by reporters and columnists onto their Web sites." Sites als went on to mention that CNN.com news executives don't believe in blogs and they prefers to take a more structured approach to presenting the news.
Then on the other hand there are those that don't think blogging is wrong at all. For example, in the J.D. Lisca article Paul Andrews, a former journalist for the Seattle Times, said,"Weblogs and other forms of online journalism are on the rise in part because of the rapid decline in the credibility of big media. I think the Web is actually becoming more credible while established media are losing ground...and name me the last five serious efforts at public-interest journalism by institutionalized media." In that same article it was said by Deborah Branscum that creattive freedom, instantaneity, interactivity, and lack of marketing constraints as being focal as to the benefits of blogging.
That is essentially one thing that they have in common is that they both can be completely biased and consumed by propaganda. They can both give you a story that is one sided, but it's just that one isn't the typical type of journalism that the world is accustomed to.
I agree completely with the usage of blogging. This is because of the freedom that comes along with it. You don't have to conform to anyone's rules of how or what to write.Besides I usually don't have the time to go to the store and buy the newspaper or to sit down and watch broadcast news, but I do use the computer everyday, so accessing a blog is very convenient.
I believed that blogging has helped journalism. Blogging has helped journalism because it is just another way to gather and share news, thus furthermore spreading journalism. To me it does the sames as what TV did to radio, it is just another channel in which information is sent. Blogging is an altered form of journalism because it gathers information from anyone who wants to post. Although there are instances where blogging has covered some news before it hits TV and radio, blogging creates a market for news that does not make it to news articles, TV, and radio.
After reading the articles on blogging and journalism I have noticed that blogging and journalism has both helped each other. In the article "Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility" they talk about how blogging and journalism coincide with each other. That bloggers are just like journalist. In the article "Kevin Sites and the Blogging Controversy", they say that blogging and journalism are sometimes similiar because a journalist work has to edited and read through just like blogs a read through and people voice their opinions on the. So by reading I have found that journalism and blogging go hand in hand with one another.
Blogging has taken over, very rapidly. However journalism has been around for the longest time. Will it fall or will it continue to strive. Blogging is new age, it is for the hear and know. After skimming through the articles, it is evident that blogging has taken over within the internet world. I never went on a blog before this class, and i don't think that i will continue after this class. Only if it is required of me to do so. In siber space this blogging technique has evovled.
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Blogging is a form of expressing one’s self though internet uses. But it also has other purposes including informing and bringing attention to issues that may have been looked over in the media in “Forum: How blogging changed journalism – almost” the author explains how blogging has brought attention to those who are currently in the News media business and called them out on their lack of informant. Furthermore, the child likes antics of Boston Globe's Alex Beam who have gotten revenge on those by posting Blogs. Old fashion media criticizes bloggers in every way, but find themselves in one point or another being pulled into the blogger’s web of writing. I think that blogging is a new form of journalism in a refreshing way. It disperses opinion and fact (in some) at the same time; instead of a monogamous feeling of news facts (wither true or exasperated) being thrown at you. Blogging a new wave of Journalism. In the article Blogging as a Form of Journalism Paul Andrews claimed a valid point “Not everyone who keeps a journal is a journalist” meaning that though it is a new wave of sending valuable messages of news to those in the internet world it is also a sometimes unvalued use of Journalism media in opinion form. One media plays off of the other so I really feel that the journalism of bloggers is helping the common American public by sending a new wave of interpreting new and disrupting media by being useless in some sense of the form blogging is written in and the content.
After reading two out of the four of these articles, my decision as to which one i prefer didn't change. I don't have problem with niether of them. I think that one needs the other because without blogging there is nothing really to critque traditonal journalism and without traditonal journalism there wold be no detailed information being processed and nothing for bloggers to voice or type rather, their opinion over. But if i had to be a journalist or a blogger, it would be a blogger its a whole lot less writing , you get straight to the point in a couple of sentences and your message still gets across.
Tricia
I read "How Blogging Changed Journalism", by Chris Mooney, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and "Kevin Sites and the Blogging Controversy", by Susan Mernit, Online Journalism Review. These articles helped me to better understand the misunderstandings between traditional journalism and blogging.
Traditional journalism, to me, is accurate newscasts containing strictly facts with hardly any biasness.
Blogging, on the other hand, to me anyways, is the authur's defination of the truth, or his opinion.
I agree with Susan Mernit's article that says, "having an editor provides a blog with a vital safety net". Having an editor proof work before it is posted prooves it's validity to the readers and helps to build trust with the blogger and his readers.
I think that blogging has helped journalism in the way that it has forced journalists to re-evaluate the way they write to now keep in mind that their audience is humans versus robots who are only interested in pure facts. Readers today are also interested in other peoples opinions and want to be heard themselves.
So i think that blogging, especially the part where you can respond with your opinion, is vital to today's journalism.
After reading two of the articles on how blogging changed journalism, and Kevin Sites and the Blogging Controversy. I have come to the conclusion that blogging do not help journalism based in the fact that anybody can post anything on a blog. We don’t even know if those blogs have a good moderator and editor. We also don’t know the validity of the source; however, traditional journalism has trustworthy up to date information and the journalists are respectable people in their field. Thus, they won’t fabricate a story that does not have valid facts. I do understand the criticism of CNN and AOL when they refer to blogs are not so reliable source of information. Blogs have a long wait to go before they do become a really reliable source of news merely do to the fact that we don’t even know the people who post most of the blogs and where they get their information from. We as readers and Media students need to be more aware and able to differentiate from blog good source and blog garbage, so that we can honestly contribute the so called media revolution
I chose to read the articles "How blogging changed joournalism -- almost" and "Kevin Sites and the blogging controversy." It's very intriguing how blogging has separate journalism. For instance, how blogging has practically divided journalism in two sides. as an example of this separation, Networks such as MSNBC and FoxNews which are for it and CNN and The New York Times which are totally opposed to it.I personally support and I'm on the side of MSNBC which believes blogging is a new form of transmitting news, not necessarily as accurate but it's truly a unique way of communication since it's the fastest interaction and feedback response between reader or viewer with repoters or networks. As an example to this phenomenom, Kevin Sites, eho is a war reporter had a blog who he would write and instantly inform the public about his expriences and notes about how the war truly was. Blogs are a new revolutiom of media which are informative but at the same time reflect the truw opinions of the public which you can't find anywehere else. I believe blogs are an extension of journalism which has increased the interest of people in getting more informed on what's going on around the world.
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