A blog about blogging

I think that blogging is the new wave of journalism. Because of it’s fast paced; reader conscious style people consult blogs more often than newspapers. People are held more accountable for their actions and reactions when writing a blog post. Instead of writing a “letter to the editor” readers can have commentary with the writer as well as other readers.

It is important that people blog about things so that we can see varying sides of an issue. Bias is fine, it tells us what that person truly thinks. With bias it is easier to identify, “this is what this person thinks of this issue” instead of believing the writer in unbiased and assuming everything the writer says is fact.

Blogs are not necessarily negative or positive attribute of journalism; it is simply the newest form. Journalists have adapted to the technologically rich society we live in and readers have responded. With so many people writing about the same issues it is important for a reader to be able to check more than one source. Instead of buying 5 newspapers and flipping through them for half an hour each, readers are now able to click on a link and zoom to another side of an issue. But personality is the real beauty of reading a blog. Being able to see how that person feels about a particular issue, with print journalism the writing is often so emotionless that it is not enjoyable to read. Blogs are full of emotion; they have to be in order for people to stay interested.

There is no real way to know where journalism as a profession is going, but blogging seems to be really taking off. Writers and readers really enjoy the process of blogging, from the original post to the commentary that sparks from it’s posting. I don’t believe blogging is a negative aspect of journalism, because readers are able to get varying points of view. This is the best part of reading a blog, that you can click on a hyperlink to fact check the persons work, and decide for yourself what the story means. There is less of feeding information to the reader; the reader has become more active in the process. This is really refreshing. Blogging makes people care more about news. It makes it easier to follow a story you care about.