Simply put, blogging is not a completely credible source of information (i.e. current events with hard facts). Blogging was first started for the purpose of internet users to share their thoughts and experiences, not to become professional reporters to report and cite current events. When bloggers write about world news, they expect others to read. What blogs readers choose to read is based on credibility. In a study held by Pew Internet and American Life Project from 2005 to 2006, “Only a third of bloggers see blogging as a form of journalism, yet many check facts and cite original sources.” Although blogging was began for personal self satisfaction of sharing life experiences, it is fastly becoming a media business where the community thrives on the attention of others alike. Credibility, accuracy and enthusiasm about one's blog is key for success in the blogosphere.
(My new response can be found under "The Role Blog... Part 2")
2. HOW EFFECTIVE IS BLOGGING (I.E. ARE BLOGS EFFECTIVE AT REACHING AN AUDIENCE)?
Blogging has a range of people that make up its audience. The attention that bloggers receive most frequently comes from fellow bloggers, and secondly from family and friends. According to the studies by Pew Internet and American Life Project from 2005 to 2006:
Precious few bloggers achieve the kind of attention -very public and, perhaps nationally and internationally influential- that may come from political figures or the news media. Just ten percent of bloggers have received attention from public officials, political campaigns or politicians. Nine percent of bloggers have had their blog mentioned by the news media.
3. HOW HAS BLOGGING INFLUENCED JOURNALISM?
Although blogging has changed and influenced journalism, I think its influence is based on the fact that many bloggers ridicule journalist on their “negligence” for facts, and becoming “lazy” in pursuing sources. Journalism is a field that is being made easier to acquire, but is unlikely for Regular Joe to get paid for what he blogs about. Professional journalists are also taken quickly to blogging, and so blogging has become sort of journalistic. Anyone with an opinion and a source can become a journalist.
Internet Sources:
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP%20Bloggers%20Report%20July%2019%202006.pdf
http://ajr.org/article.asp?id=3931
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