Blogging March 17, 2008

In class we watched a video about blogging and it brought up the question of whether bloggers should be considered journalists. I think that in some ways they are since the whole goal of journalists is to get news across to their audience, and whether a blogger is writing about current events or just their own lives, they are still targeting an audience and trying to get their news known. However, they certainly do not have the same standing as a journalist who thoroughly researches his or her topics and backs up his or her standpoint, whereas I’m just jotting down my opinions for example. They work a lot harder than a simple blogger; they get their work edited, they rewrite, what they write should be considered a lot more credible than a random blogger who may not have a clue to what he or she is writing about. I don’t think bloggers should be required to abide by the same rules as journalists because I see blogging as a way for people to say what they want to say and how they want to say it- the freedom of speech.