All throughout the world, we see many media outlets find the latest story and blast it out to the world so we can retain this information. For the majority in medium history, we’ve seen everyone take time out of the day to hear the radio, watch the news or even pick up a newspaper to get their fill. In this day and age, it’s not about the information but how people react to it. Day in and day out, people create blogs to discuss an event that transpired but never really stop and look to see this event in its entirety to get the full story. This is why I personally feel that blogs will never take over traditional journalism, it’s not always completely accurate. It’s common to see many blogs online be shared amongst those who are heavily involved in the technological era where everything is accessible through your laptop, smartphone and even your television. The article “ Why Bloggers Can’t Replace the Work of Professional Journalists ” reinforces my views on bloggers by stating “Professional journalists hit the streets of the communities they cover on a daily basis in order to dig up stories important to the people living there.” And it’s easy to agree with this claim because bloggers really show themselves at the actual scenes where events happen, but they have a response to the article that was crafted by the actual journalists. So essentially, without the journalists who actually do the ground work then bloggers wouldn’t have anything to blog about. It’s fair to say that there is a new emergence of professional bloggers all around the world, some of them are even owned by major companies such as “New York Times”, “ABC” and even “CNN”. They are beginning to see this new style of journalism may not be traditional but it’s definitely effective. The article “ The Rise of the Professional Blogger ” states “Almost everyone weighing in agreed that blogging has become more corporate, more ossified, and increasingly indistinguishable from the mainstream media.”, meaning that blogging is solidifying its position in mainstream media all around the world and that’s a win-lose situation for society as whole. It’s a win because people who aren’t able to get information and/or lack the knowledge of particular platforms may be introduced to something that can keep them up to date in the rest of the world. But, it’s a loss because we see that day in and day out that there a several satire blogs whose sole purpose is to demean, discredit and spew out subjective information to get more clicks and even as a means to go viral. We know that there are several major news platforms that manipulate their content to get a certain reaction but there are some people who are popular purely off of yellow journalism and a large following of people who enjoy chaos being implemented in media. But to answer the question, I don’t not think bloggers will replace traditional journalism because without the latter then the former will not exist.
Feb 07