Can Blogs Take Over Traditional News Sources?

News is broadcasted live throughout the world and allows people to know what is going on. People look towards the news for the weather, new movements/ projects, sport news, and for politics. Our lives revolve around the news. Traditional news is broadcasted and is seen more than blogs. The only difference is that blogs tend to be more opinion based. Many news networks have created blogs in attempts to reach more of the younger audience. Carlson says “Of the top 50 blogs, 21 are owned by such familiar names as CNN, the New York Times, ABC, and AOL. ” The news broadcasting services are starting to realize that their audience is starting to lean towards blogs to see the latest news. News sources tend to reach the older audience and blogs tend to reach the younger audience. Both blogs and news sources will continue to be popular because each age group keeps it alive. Both news sources and blogs ultimately have the same goal, to give insight on an event or topic. In “Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities” , it states ” Their findings indicate that blogs are used as a tool to share daily experiences, opinions and commentary. Based on their interviews, they also describe how bloggers form communities online that may support different social groups in real world.” Blogs can do something that newspapers can not, which is form communities online. Newspapers are able to instill an idea for a supporting social group, but it is unable to bring them together easily. People also use Twitter to post how they feel, their opinions on the latest news, and to find social groups of people that have similar ideals. Twitter allows people to track movements and follow politics. I believe that blogs can not take over traditional news sources only because the news is more factual. Blogs tend to give their opinion on an event/topic that was shown on the news. I feel like the both of them need to co-exist to keep them both flourishing. Without the news sources, there are no opinions to blog about. Without the blogs, there are no real opinions or online communities.

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