Journalists are those people that write and get their work published while working under a newspaper or magazine company. Bloggers are those people that write and get their work published on the net.
So the big question here, are bloggers journalists?
Journalists have somehow become a joke now with the existence of bloggers
Unfortunately, no, I don’t think so. Unlike journalist, bloggers write to their heart content about a topic, no restriction, no limitation whatsoever. Whileas journalists, they have certain ethics, certain limitation provided by their editors – sometimes their article could be cut in half if the editors want it to be. For me, that much shows the difference between the two; the freedom in writing I mean.
Journalists are often writing news or article under the influence and pressure of their company or affiliated parties like we see in the movie Green Hornet. In the movie, the newspaper company owned by the Reid family was pressured to write biased articles. Or like in Harry Potter, where Rita Skeeter, the journalist, manipulates and write wrong facts in her article.
While bloggers write as they like, no pressure whatsoever. 
No pressure obviously.
But, that doesn’t mean bloggers aren’t biased either. Both journalists and bloggers may provide false facts and it is up to us to decide whether it’s wrong or right.
yeah...you are right also but as what I have posted before, there are few bloggers can be known as journalist. Is just that maybe they are more towards "Freelancer Journalist" or making part time money by documenting his research on net. As usual, not all bloggers are journalists but all journalists can be bloggers :=)
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