Blogging is a reasonably new form of communication online, whereby anyone can create their own blog in order to express their own opinions and thoughts for anyone else searching the web to look at or read.
The very nature and role of blogging is a place where opinion and debate can arise, therefore for many grammar, spelling and general accuracy is not always top of the list. Within journalism almost every piece written is sub edited and proof read to ensure its utmost accuracy and truthfulness, this is therefore a large difference between blogging and journalism as blogging is rarely regulated and allows almost anything to be published online.
Due to this many people find it difficult to comprehend blogging as a form of journalism:
“I think there’s a misunderstanding when people try to talk about blogging through the frame of journalism. Most political bloggers don’t consider themselves to be journalists but rather citizens participating in a public debate. The fact that it took off in the way that it did and joined the mainstream debate is why people thought of it as journalism.” (R.Solly, 2007, pgs 198)
Blogging offers anyone a platform in which to get views and thoughts as well as work and ideas published, there’s nothing really to take away anything perhaps that wouldn’t be found in publications or forms of online journalism, in some ways this separates blogging from true journalism as there is no process or consideration to it, it can be merely published as an out-pour of nonsense.
Bibliography:
R.Solly, Journalism, Career F&Qs, 2007, pgs 198
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