Some people often confuse bloggers with journalists even though there are some differences. Blogging started in 1994. Blogging started as a way of creating content on the web and expressing yourself online. As technology progressed, more and more people started using the internet to put their ideas and thoughts on the spotlight. When people think of journalism, they think of the news. Journalism is the is the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business according to dictionary. In my opinion, the difference between journalism and blogging is that blogging is more personal and opinionated unlike journalism which focuses on facts.
As blogging continues to grow, a lot of people wonder if it could ever affect journalism. In the article “Why Bloggers Can’t Replace the Work of Professional Journalists” written by Tony Rogers, he believes that bloggers will never replace journalists. One reason why he believes this is because they produce different content. Bloggers don’t create stories, they piggyback off of stories that were produced by professional journalists. Journalists go out in the real world to cover stories that are very important to to the people in the community. Bloggers usually stay home, comfortable, on their computers. But this is just the stereotypical blogger. Either way, bloggers don’t report real news they just comment on information produced by journalist.
In my opinion, bloggers are a threat to journalist because in this new generation, nobody really focuses on real news, everybody is more interested in the reactions instead. There are many different type of bloggers out there that appeal to many different people. Journalism is pretty typical and bland. But at the same time, journalism is still very important to today’s society since they do broadcast news and usually comes with facts instead of opinions.
