The first reading Why Bloggers Can’t Replace the Work of Professional Journalists by Tony Rogers, raises a good point about the relationship between bloggers and professional journalists; “expressing one’s opinion is very different from doing objective news reporting. And while opinions are fine, blogs that do little more than editorializing won’t satisfy the public hunger for objective, factual information” (Rogers, 2017). I wholly agree with this statement and I believe that first obtaining news from credible, unbiased sources is extremely important. Referring to blogs should be used as a way to compare perspectives on news and other various topics– get the whole story first, then refine your opinion. The article proposes this by suggesting that blogging is used best as a supplement to professional journalism, rather than a primary source. Blogging is not a bad thing but, in my opinion, it is too subjective to replace professional journalism. However, many people believe that blogging has become so formal and developed, that it is indistinguishable from mainstream media. The second reading The Rise of the Professional Blogger by Benjamin Carlson raises the argument that because blogging platforms are becoming owned by larger news companies such as CNN, ABC, and The New York Times and individual bloggers are now being placed under the same guidelines and challenges as professional journalists, the blogging industry is becoming more credible. It will be interesting to see how the news industry will develop in the future, and how the dynamic between blogging and professional journalism will evolve.
Feb 15 2018
Blogging vs Real news
Before reading these articles I actually did think blogging could replace real news. I thought that because in this day in age a lot of people turn to social media for information before actually turning on the news or searching a real news site such as Pix11 or News 12. I know that when somebody tells me about news that I never heard of before the first thing I do is either hashtag the subject on twitter to see if that is what everyone is talking about or I go straight to Instagram to find the popular blog pages to see if they reported on it.
After reading the article I don’t know what to think. My mind slightly changed, because in the article they bring up a lot of good points about why blogging can’t replace real news. Some of the points that they gave were that bloggers don’t produce news stories on their own, they comment on what is already out there. Whereas professional journalist actually go out to the communities that they cover. They also say that bloggers giving out their opinion won’t satisfy the public hunger for factual information. I never really thought about the people that don’t have social media or even the older people who don’t know how to use social media. For some people the only way they get information about what is going on in the world is by turning on the TV or radio. So maybe blogging really can’t replace real news. One thing for sure is blogging is definitely becoming more popular.
Another very interesting thing that was mentioned is the word ‘microblogging” prior to reading the article “Why we Twitter” I have never heard of that word. I actually do have a twitter, but I never knew that me just tweeting a few tweets every day would be considered microblogging. Microblogging is a little more convenient because it fulfills a need for an even faster mode of communication. Although microblogging is pretty popular, I know for sure that bloggers have a better chance at replacing journalist than micro bloggers do.
Feb 15 2018
Blogging vs. Traditional Media Outlets
Blogging has been around since the early to mid 2000s, but has only recently become more of an “institutionalized” medium on the rise. As “Why Bloggers Can’t Replace the Work of Journalists” states, blogging is a form of citizen journalism, which essentially gives anybody a platform to discuss, post, and curate whatever they want. It is vastly different from professional journalism because journalists produce news stories and content on a global platform such as television and reporting. Bloggers just tend to comment on news stories that are already out there with a subjective approach, while journalists state facts and are more objective. Blogs can give anyone a voice, but they are also a dime a dozen because everyone is competing for a chance to have an established, successful blog. Newer bloggers are trying to latch onto bigger corporations such as CNN in order to have a recognizable online presence.
While I don’t think blogging will replace traditional news outlets such as reporting/journalism, I do think that it will eventually replace print media such as newspapers. People would rather read the news through social media, where they are able to have the quickest and newest information at the tips of their fingers. Blogs also offer insight to events, people, places, things, etc. It is an amateur perspective but audiences can decipher whether or not they want to follow a blog or a news story first. People also have shorter attention spans so they want to get to the details immediately. As blogs become more corporate, they will eventually become more reliable sources, as stated in “The Rise of the Professional Blogger”. Newspapers use fewer reporters and more blogs in order to have sufficient content for their stories.
As time goes on, I think blogging and reporting/traditional journalism will be able to exist side by side as reliable mediums in the world of media. One simply won’t replace the other just because they are different. Instead, I see them as two sources that could equally provide information to the general public.
Feb 15 2018
blogging vs traditional news
Blogging and traditional news were always seen as two different types of sources where you got your info from. Blogging was seen as more of a way to get your gossip or a different opinion of actual news where as traditional news is what is actually occurring in the world. According to the first article ” Can Bloggers Replace Journalist”, they talk about how bloggers are “seen at people who sit at home all day on their computers just commenting on real news stories” and its mainly based on opinion. A lot of the blogs we see are just a repeat of news stories mixed in with gossip and opinion. Some people believe that bloggers and journalist are the same. But in actuality, they’re really not. Journalist go to the stories and figure out what is really going on to give us the people and society a real story and insight into what is occurring in the world. Bloggers usually feed off of these news post or stories and put their own spin on it. They twist words or put what they believe is really happening in their stories. A lot of famous bloggers are not around anymore according to the article “The Rise of the Professional Bloggers”. A lot of bloggers went from traditional loggers to writing for actual big companies. They have now become journalists for these companies and have become professional journalist bringing us traditional news. The article “Why we Twitter” talks about how people only go on twitter to blog about what is going on in their lives or to see what is happening in other people’s lives. It a way for us to kind of keep in touch with everyone and keep track of what is happening with society. Blogging is now just away to let people know what we are doing and traditional news gives us the info we need.
Feb 15 2018
Blogger vs. Journalist
From reading the articles it informed me on how much blogging expanded. I never knew how it was taking over journalism itself. One thing I do know is that blogging has been a big aspect in newspapers not selling. This is when platforms such as NY Times and The Washington post have become online as well as paper.
Most people would think of blogging like tumblr or personal blogs where you write your own stories and experiences. There are bloggers that are journalist and they do go above and beyond to find the story and research about it. When it comes to blogging I feel like it is more free and you can choose to be biased or not.
In other words, I do not agree with Tony Rogers argument about how bloggers can’t replace Journalists. Reasons why is because bloggers are journalist in a way and in modern times I feel as if anyone can be a journalist. With all the different social media platforms everyone can put content out there. When it comes to newspapers and journalist who are paid to put content out there. I do agree that journalist in those platforms are different because what they put out there is valid information. Although sometimes it could not be true.
Feb 15 2018
Blogging Vs. Traditional News Discussion 2
Blogging had become very popular during the 90’s, or early 2000’s. It gave writers a new media to get let out their frustrations,opinions, and feelings. However recent articles have been debating whether blogging will completely diminish newspapers and news websites. Bloggers only express their opinions which sometimes have to do with topics by the news however that is different from reporting news. In the first article “Can Bloggers replace journalists?” The author brings up the point that reporters go out and investigate, interview people, and “dig up important stories” while bloggers are home in their pjs. In a sense that part of the article is saying that there is no research necessary when your blogging as oppose to being a reporter. Reporters also have deadlines in order to get news out with accurate timing while bloggers write whenever they want. Another point in the article “Can Bloggers replace journalists?” He brings up expertise, Reporters such as sports reporters spend years studying their topic while bloggers may know a general definition of the topic. Opinions vs real facts is a lot to compare which is why i believe that reporters will not lose their jobs to bloggers any time soon if ever.
Feb 15 2018
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.
Feb 15 2018
weekly post #2 Blogging Vs traditional news reporting
Joseph Singh
February 15, 2018
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Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Weekly Post #2 “Blogging Vs Traditional News Reporting
After reading “The Rise Of Professional Bloggers” I have come to the realization that yes blogging lets the “little” guy have a voice ,but a lot of the blogs are run by big companies. For example the article states how 27 of the top 100 blog sites are run by AOL which already is a huge news/email and website platform. So that makes me think are they really blogging about what they want or is it just being filtered by the big companies who “own” the blogs. Furthermore, the age of technology aided everyone amateur or professional to become a reporter of some sort. Whether they are reviewing something, talking about their everyday lives or giving their opinion on current news, it has become very easy for them to release content and gain a following. As popularity gained with blogging its becoming a norm and more of a way to get money and release content that “the man” wants released.
Blogging is good when it comes to commenting on already published news reports or when it comes to giving your stand point in certain topics, like elections for example. But i highly doubt that blogs could ever replace news because their validity. News reporters get out there and actually find out what the scoop is, where as most bloggers wait at home until there is something worth commenting on and give a very arguable standpoint on a situation ad information that has already been published.
If you ask me, i feel like blogging and news reporting are not going to replace one another. They both deserve there own levels of respect. Blogging takes time, you have to develop an audience and you actually have to have an opinion worth reading about to get a following, where as news, is very important because the have an obligation to find out the facts and details. And bring you, the people current events that are non opinionated and unbiased; stories to keep you up to date on whats going on in your city, state, or in the world.
Feb 15 2018
Journalism and bloggers week 3
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.
Feb 15 2018
Assignment Two
We are living in a world where we see and hear media everywhere. Savy bloggers are taking over how we receive our daily news. Our first sources would be just looking on our phone. There are apps such as New York Times and Briefing, etc. But the youth tend to use Twitter and Facebook to consume daily news around the world. Especially now in America, we get President Donald Trump’s daily updates through Twitter. I believe he puts too much opinions and ideas out there before thinking twice.
In terms of “journalism”, I agree with Tony Rogers whom wrote the first article about how bloggers can’t replace journalists. Which in my perspective I do agree with him. Bloggers put to much seasoning on the actual raw stories. They provide too much of their opinions then what actually occurred. So its rare to see a blogger with his or her original story. I don’t have Twitter, so I was never familiar with what goes on until President Trump. I use YouTube occasionally, but its crazy how much viewers they get. They probably receive more than a journalists. I was curious and web searched what was the average pay for a journalist. On “Indeed”, I found that the average salary is approximately $40,000 a year. But on the other hand YouTube bloggers receive way more if they have millions of viewers and subscribers.
As in for the Twitter article, it was confusing and not interesting if I can say. Its based on what is Twitter and the statistics and correlation of Twitter and blogging.