Bloggers != Journalists

There is an Extremely interesting article on bloggers vs journalists on www.theapplicationdeliverynetwork.com


An interesting read! There are to key points to be made from the article (blog post.. the irony) The whole article boils down to this conclusion.. "until bloggers are bound by some sort of restrictions or code of conduct and actually offer more value than simply regurgitation of press releases or unsubstantiated comparisons, vendors cannot (and should not) treat them as first class citizens of the media community" which contains two parts..

The later part rightfully says Content is important! Repeating press releases does indeed make you a gathering point for that information, but does not mean that you are writing news, have joined the press corps. Newspapers do more that just repeat the information they are being fed by the companies! Thus to be comparable to "a real news source", bloggers should realize they need to do more than just post. Quality over Quantity..

The former is another one altogether. Throughut the whole article, the writer proves that he just is NOT ready for "the new news sources". Blogging might be the next style in journalism. And the whole article proves that the writer isnt ready to give that new idea a chance! After All.. Freedom of Press is an ever important issue and defining a viable source by the existence of behavioral (restricting) rules just sounds Wrong!

I d love to go into this some deeper but I just dont have the time for that right now. A final note tough.. I am not saying that blogging is the answer to anything. I am only pointing out the fact that, like all new things, its facing a lot of prejudice and negativism.