Blog 4 part 2

Write a second blog article discussing the coverage of Weblogs by the mainstream media and what effect you think bloggers have on the media's coverage of an issue. How do bloggers fit into the communication sphere of our country? Do they make media better, or do they distract media from the important issues of our world?

The question is, are bloggers credible sources? The credibility of all bloggers is in a constant state of question. The information given by the bloggers who claimed to know the “truth” behind controversial “Memogate” was eventually dismissed. According to the article Blog-Gate, “bloggers fact checking was seriously warped” and “their driving assumptions were often drawn from flawed information or based on faulty logic.” I couldn’t agree more with Corey Pein, the author of Blog-Gate. Who are bloggers and how do they get their information? Although the bloggers cited in Pein’s article had creditable titles and information, their assumptions on the “Memogate” story were never proved to be true.

America is a very outspoken country and what a better way to let every American give there opinion on a subject than blogging. As a journalism graduate student, I hate blogging. Blogging is not “real” journalism. Although everyone has an opinion, a journalist is supposed to report the facts as unbiased as possible. There is a certain code of ethics a journalist must follow and with bloggers there is no such code.

In most cases blogs are merely biased stories that are poorly written by people who are no more qualified than my five year old cousin. Writers and anchors blogging on their newspaper or network’s website are not real bloggers. These are qualified people who are most likely forced to blog to keep up with the growing trend of electronic media. I think blogging is the reality TV of the internet, people love it and it’s not going away. On that note, I believe “mainstream media” and “bloggers” are both equally as corrupt.