TOPIC DISCUSSION 2
ARE BLOGGERS JOURNALISTS? What is your take on this?
Dear Media Culture students,
Here is your second topic for your Blog Assignment.
Please read these three interesting articles:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2005/tc2005037_7877_tc024.htm
http://chris.pirillo.com/are-bloggers-journalists-are-blogs-new-journalism/
http://blog.nj.com/jerseyblogs/2009/05/are_bloggers_journalists_too_m.html
From my point of view,
ReplyDeleteBloggers are definitely not a journalists. Being a journalists, you must have a set of moral principles known as ethic before you can write or commenting about an issues. So having a knowledge qualification is something that u must earned. As a bloggers, writing an article or commenting about something is not wrong, spreading feeling toward some issue for me is a good thing and a way to exchange idea’s and critic’s. Although some of bloggers are as good as journalist in the way they wrote comment, from my perspective toward bloggers, they are always spread their feeling blindly, do not care about human sensitivities such as race, religion and others thing that are not suppose to be elaborate within blog. Same like the article that have been given by the lecturer for example. xD
( TEDDY ADRIAMA BIN NASRIL - 1091102813 )
From my point of view,
ReplyDeleteBloggers and journalists have 2 thing in common, they both from media and they both produce something. Journalist give facts and facts only but do we ever ask our self, is it true? Some people say that the blogger information is much more accurate. I say maybe, but most blogger tell what they found in their life and express it with their opinions, so we don't know even it's all true or just theory or both. Are bloggers a journalist? Depends. If blog is created for journal purpose with the journalist point of view, yes. If blog is created as everuday diary, no. Even law can't decide it because law is fragile itself, that's all.
From Teddy Adriama Bin Nasril,
i agree on you about changing ideas and critics being a blogger. I also agree on blogger how they express they feeling blindly. But a good blogger know how to express their feeling without making an issues. We human, in all thing, must have ethic but yeah, most of us failed.
Sorry if you can't understand my words, but I've only sleep for 3 hours yesterday and know i been awake until now. XD
( Wan Ahmad Rahimi - 1091101123 )
I must agree with Wan Ahmad Rahimi statement that says "most blogger tell what they found in their life and express it with their opinions". Depends on how a blogger react on a topic and creating a content that a appropriate with society. A good blogger can be a better journalist. If a blogger can think wise or rationally, surely they can be a great journalist. HAHA XD
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From Wan Ahmad Rahimi
ReplyDeleteBloggers and journalists really got something in common, expression feeling in words but the way of expressing in word is important, but although if they decide to make it as a daily dairy but it doesn't mean that blogger are able to point out someone name inside their blog to talk about them without they noticing it, unlike the journalist who undergo some procedure to publish their work of expressing their words
From my point of view
blogger are not actually journalist who their work must be filtered before it been release to the public, when blogger talk about someone, their should prepared that someone might sue you
(SYAFIZ AMIRUL BIN MUSLEH - 1091100342)
I agree with SYAFIZ AMIRUL . A lot of cases about wrong doing from a blogger has been notify within this few years. Check this page ( http://www.topnews.in/demi-moore-threatens-sue-blogger-perez-hilton-over-daughter-s-pics-2210493 )
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ReplyDeleteMy point of view:
ReplyDeleteBloggers are not journalist! Blog commonly used for expression for self especially to those who are shy and does'nt socialize well among community.So they express it thru blog. Hoping that someone would read it, and understand what the blogger is expressing.
While journalist; write about facts that happen around us. Writing an article which were based on facts are different than expressing self's feelings nor thoughts.
Based on Syafiz said:
Yes, I do agree if a blogger talk about someone, they should prepare for the worst part that is. It'll be a wise move if the blogger does not put the person's name to avoid such conflict. Describing the person's personality would be enough just to describe the person.
(Mohamad Shah Ijmal bin Ismail - 1092700402 )