Do checklist before go for the next step

This is the typical nature for human being that always takes things easy. Especially for students they will always try to find a way to make their life easier, even for myself i would totally vote for a yes as i also do the same thing. Most students often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much  what will happen in the future .This do not surprise me because not only the student do it but also the older people do the same thing.  It is actually not a good habit to apply to our life style because it will break the bonds for not investigate the truth or copy someone article without do some research to that issue. The truth is that only some information in the internet is reliable information. The CARS Checklist (Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support) is designed for ease of learning and use.  Therefore if we learn to use the criteria in this list, we will be much more likely to separate the high quality information from the poor quality information.

Topic Discussion 4.

Do you often take what is on the Internet as TRUTH with our thinking much about it? If yes, why? If no, why? Discuss this in your own words with recent personal examples.

Bloggers Are Journalists - Vice Versa?

Based on my research, there is a simple explanation on this statement. A Journalist is a person who discover and write reports about his research and statement based on the facts, evidence such at photographs and videos, experiences and then release it through several media like television, website, radio and so on. He or she works for a company or else by his own (freelancer).

Bloggers are the people or community who write and share their experiences of their daily life like writing about diary(public diary). But you can't estimate that all bloggers does that. In this 21st centuries, technologies have grown up. Nowadays, people prefer sharing their research and experiences through net compare with television and so on. Net is a new media which have attracted more people even a kid too. The community prefer internet compare with television because net is more faster than the other media. The people able to gain knowledge and information through net.

So, nowadays, the technique have changed. Journalists like freelancer prefer sharing their research through net such as Blogger which have become an important element in our daily life. So, this means that not all bloggers are journalist. Those who don't write about their daily life but do research and document their experiences, fact and element such as about politics, economy and social of a country or world can be know as journalist even though they are bloggers. Based on my opinion, NOT ALL BLOGGERS ARE JOURNALISTS BUT ALL JOURNALISTS CAN BE BLOGGERS. It just depends on what the bloggers document on their web profile to share it to the community. As long as bloggers have their own research, facts, evidence and so on about his issues which he document in the website, he can be known as journalist or more towards freelancer journalist.

Obvious Distinction

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.

Who's right?

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 ;)

Bloggers: Journalists without Paychecks.

Consider this definition of a journalist from Wikipedia:

 'A journalist collects and disseminates information about current events, people,trends, and issues'


My take on this topic is that bloggers; the everyday person who sits behind his computer and airs his opinion on topics that he finds interesting, could be considered journalists since they do satisfy the definition of the very word in question; Journalist.

*With respect to the fact that the information should be conveyed through mass media, otherwise that would mean that even a person holding a conversation with another person would be considered journalism*

(proffesional journalist)

The only difference, in my opinion, is that Bloggers most of the time express their personal opinions, don't do it for money and regard the sharing of information as passion or something they feel they were born to do. Journalists on the other hand are paid, consider it a work and most of the times their personal opinion may or may not be aired due to company propaganda.


The question is that should the latter only be considered a journalists only because they're paid? In my opinion the mere definition of the word suggests that it is the critical analysis along with the distribution of the information that makes one a journalist and not his or her's paycheck.

Blogger writes from their heart.

Does blogger is the same with journalist? Hmm based on the article that I've read, "Are bloggers journalists? Are blogs new journalism? by Chris Pirillo" he thought that, a blogger is not the same as journalist. Well it seems like i  think the same way with him. For me, a blogger will most probably writes about his or her personal life; about what they did or their own opinion. Furthermore, blogger will not getting any payment for what they've been writing for because they write what they want to share with the readers. Maybe a few bloggers will get some extra money from the advertisements application on their blogs. While the journalists write because they have to. It's their job to write. So maybe it is not purely from their heart. And Chris stated that most of the info that being channeled from the journalists to the media are not 100% correct. It is because they just write 'something' to fulfill their jobs criteria.  Other that that, we must consider if certain bloggers are wrong about their statements because bloggers only write about what they know and the one who supposed to give a real fact is the journalists. Nowadays a lot of bloggers tend to be the journalists, giving info and inputs to other people. But they still don't get any payment. It depends on the bloggers' sincerity of writing. In other cases, troll blogs have become a worldwide trend because troll blogs will get higher hit than any informative facts blog. Are they same as the journalists? No aren't they? So my conclusion is bloggers are not the same as the journalist. Bloggers write for fun while journalists write for money.  

"So which one do you trust? The one that writes from the heart or the one that writes from the (not 100% correct) facts?"

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