In the past,blogs were important but not as important. Anybody can make a blog, but some were not good blogs. Some people would make an opinion about a topic, but not have any facts to suppport their argument, or people would write a bad blog post about a resturant that they never have been to. Nowadays, bloggers actually write meaningful things, but they won’t ever be able to take journalists credit for their work. Their are some famous bloggers in the world, but that is out of a million people that blog. Journalists go to the places where they are making their stories as shown in the article, ” Why bloggers can’t replace the work of professional journalists, ” by Tony Rogers. He also said that while people have sterotypes about bloggers that are not true, most blogs only talk about their opinions, unlike journalists who get the opinions from facts that they got on the topic. He also said that many reporters have been following their topics for years, for example Adrian Wojnarowski who is a espn sports writer, but have been following sports for over 20 years. They hold more credibility over a blogger, who can most likely be writing about the topic for the first time. I found something interesting about bloggers. In the article, ” The rise of the professional bloggers,” by Benjamin Carlson, a well known blogger in the article, Laura McKenna writes that many known bloggers end up getting taking by professional writers, and the lesser known bloggers don’t get the attention that they used to, and know a days some people can’t even tell if a blog is written by a random person, or a professoinal writer. Now blog posts that are written, are owned by major writing or news organizations. This shows that now, major corporations are trying to take control of everything, as 10 years ago literally every blog post was written by a random person, now they are not written by random people, they are well known writers who write for maybe CNN or Enterainment Weekly or New York Times. As everything in the world is now about, blogs have been about money and exposure for the writers company. Blogs are now an extension of major companies ideas, instead of being a regular person idea. They are not blogs anymore, they are newspapers now.
Feb 07