Are bloggers journalists?
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The answer is yes.
And no.
Blogging is not a profession like journalism.
It’s a technology like books.
A book can contain history, sildenafil mystery, philosophy, poetry, biography, or pornography.
But just knowing that something is a “book” doesn’t tell you anything about the quality, the reliability or the nature of what’s in it.
In the same way, a blog can contain journalism, opinion, satire, philosophy or pornography.
When we obsess over whether or not bloggers are journalists, we miss the bigger point: bloggers are nothing more than writers.
And what a writer says is more important than where he says it.
3 comments March 19th, 2006