Bloggers vs Journalist/Reporters

In this day in age, social media and blog cites are the fastest ways people in society receive their daily news. Blogging seems to grasp more attention and informs more people about any news going on in the world. This would be due to bloggers not only just informing people of society about news but also including their personal opinion on the matter which could be intriguing to the readers. However, blogging and reporting as a journalist are two different things to where they both can be useful to society without people having to think that one should be replaced by the other. Agreeing with Tony Rogers in his article, Journalist are the ones who produce the new stories as where bloggers repost stories with commentary. This doesn’t mean that bloggers don’t have a full purpose in reporting news because in fact, bloggers are helpful when it comes to bringing light to certain news events. While Journalist are the ones to go after a story, bloggers are on the internet where most of people in society spend a lot of their time on, letting people know whats is going on, giving the facts and the attention grabber would be what the blogger themselves think of the issue. Everyone likes some gossip or a public figure who is not afraid to speak their minds about important things happening. Good bloggers provide just that and news. So, journalist can not be fully replaced by bloggers. They get and report the news, giving raw facts about any current events. Bloggers repost the story to make it more interesting to those who are into politics and to those that want to know whats going on in a summary form getting straight to the point. This in which ties back to the third article on why we use twitter and the explanation of micro-blogging. Twitter is a  good resource for brief updates on current events but are not always resourceful for knowing all the facts about an event because of all of these opinions being thrown around, mistaking an opinion for  a fact. However, links to the actual news stories are constantly upload as well.