In my opinion, bloggers and journalists are 2 different things but sharing a few of similiarity which is they write and they provide article to us.
Journalist, is those who get paid for writing article based on truth and fact they have seen and how they feel. Not all the article is written ''correctly'' but most of them is reliable where blogger can actually create some fake news and write something incorrect but not all of them.
And I found something useful about journalist shown below:
Why you should hire a journalist: Jill Geisler, of the Poynter Institute, has what I think is a great blog post. It explains to hypothetical employers why journalists make good workers. She lists 10 characteristics that make journalists good hires for any job, including writing skills, ability to get answers quickly and speed at meeting deadlines.
Journalists have “been trained that ‘If your mother says she loves you, check it out.’ Journalists know that asking why and why not, looking at multiple perspectives, digging beneath the surface, challenging conventional wisdom, discerning patterns, finding context and thinking about “what’s next” improves any story. Just as it improves job performance in most any field.” That describes most of the journalists I know — both laid off and still on the job.
- http://savethemedia.com/2009/03/29/are-bloggers-journalists-part-two/
About blogger, bloggers, in this cyber age, can be found anywhere. Almost everyone knows how to blog, even a kids, or an old people. Blogger nowadays is being enhanced so that the people can know how to use it easily. Blogging, is about writing everything you want to, as long as it never goes against the rule. You can express your feeling, you can write about an article about some incident, photo sharing, and etc. But about the reliabilty, not all the content written is trustable especially when someone have some bad motive or to do something against the law and so on.
Conclusion, to me, blogger is not a journalist where they unable to do like how the journalist do their work.
I agree with your point. Journalist are those professionally trained people who dig out the facts by skills. They judge things based on what that have learn for it is their job. As for bloggers, they mostly judge things by own perspective. Thus, journalist and blogger are two different things.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. Sometimes bloggers will create fake news just to make his/her blog famous. Its very hard to back up a blogger's article if they don't do research and have evidence.
ReplyDeleteAgree with you that a journalist is an occupation and they get paid for writing facts and reviews.
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