Journalist? Blogger? What's that? According to wikipedia, a journalist collects and disseminates information about current events, people, trends, and issues. His or her work is acknowledged as journalism. Reporters are one type of journalist. They create reports as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film, or the Internet. But blogger, is called a web site containing the writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, and often having images and links to other Web sites. For me, blogging is not a journalism. It is because blogging is only share their information in a blog. Then, the blogger do not do the research before post at the blog. Mostly, their information only their opinion. Sometimes, it also do not have the editorial control or review at their blog. They are not professionally trained like journalism. Journalism more to formal sharing information. First think what they do before publish in mass media is do the research. After that do the interview then lastly post into mass media. So, who's right now? Better think wisely ;)
It's hard to judge when some journalist tends to exaggerate the story just to increase their profits and same goes to some bloggers who likes to troll just to increase their page hits. :/
ReplyDeleteBut in the end it is depend on how sincere they write the story and not causing misunderstanding in the content when people reading it.
I agree with Rose that bloggers didn't have the proper training like journalists do so they tend to do more mistakes in terms of language like grammars and so on.
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