Blogging has all the form of journalism but I think it does not have the full content of journalism.
As John Pilger, an award winning foreign correspondent of ITV says," It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and myths that surround it".
It is imperative for the journalists to know not only the message and its real agenda but also the method in which the message is communicated and its resulting impact.
All this needs professional training and deep insight.Blogging is far off from any kind of training.it is at best a place for opinions.As Raynsford writes in his article that blogsphere has its own "weather system".
This system has its own units.I agree with Raynsford when he says," Blogs tend to be highly personalised - an online stream of consciousness".
In this personlization, blogging often loses that objectivty that is the backbone of journlaism.It is therefore not fait to equate blogging with journlaism, which requires not only the personal expression of reaction to events but deep understading of underlying poltics and investigative pursuit to go to the core and dig out the truth.Despite the falling stnadrds of maninstream journalism, which is now dominated by media-corporate and Page 3 reportage, priciples of journalism still remain the same.Principles can never be judged by practice.It is true that that way journalism was practiced 200 years ago , as the aticle Is blogging journalism? says,is not same as it is today nor will be same in future.However the point is not the praxtice but the priciciples, which has not changed and is unlikely to change.
I believe that citizen journalism has added a new dimesion to the exisitng body of journalistic practice and has helped both journlaism and society.It has added a new voice and anew perspective, which professional journalists should take seriously for further investigation.Citizen- journalism is cabable of providing new vantage points, locations and fresh point of views which may not be under any pressure and can often be classifed under" free voice".This can lead to new stories and orginal investigations by those who are appropriately trained.
Blogging will continue to create a more vibrant space of conversations,discussions and will continue to question any kind of media status-quo.This is a good news and I think it will stay.
Institutional blogs and blogs of mainstream journalists speaks volumes of the potential that blogging has in it.Blogging, therefore has added more to the traditional ways of journalistic distribution by making it avaible to the instant feeback of the general public, who can post a comment immedietly.Thus blogging is now performing a balancing act for the traditional journalistic modes and distribution.i think this go on and will continue to maintain a good segregation between what is journalistic-work and what is journalistic-junk
The new way to maintain my writing as blogs and make it available to a wider audience across the world at any time and day has made me more confident and agile in my opinions and expressions.I keep myslef more updated and abrest with what i write , read and express.
I feel more empowered, more reached and more heard and at the same time I feel more responsible as a blog writer and hence more cautious in terms of my fact-checks.It is sharpens my critical-reading skills, and objective-writing habits.
As John Pilger, an award winning foreign correspondent of ITV says," It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and myths that surround it".
It is imperative for the journalists to know not only the message and its real agenda but also the method in which the message is communicated and its resulting impact.
All this needs professional training and deep insight.Blogging is far off from any kind of training.it is at best a place for opinions.As Raynsford writes in his article that blogsphere has its own "weather system".
This system has its own units.I agree with Raynsford when he says," Blogs tend to be highly personalised - an online stream of consciousness".
In this personlization, blogging often loses that objectivty that is the backbone of journlaism.It is therefore not fait to equate blogging with journlaism, which requires not only the personal expression of reaction to events but deep understading of underlying poltics and investigative pursuit to go to the core and dig out the truth.Despite the falling stnadrds of maninstream journalism, which is now dominated by media-corporate and Page 3 reportage, priciples of journalism still remain the same.Principles can never be judged by practice.It is true that that way journalism was practiced 200 years ago , as the aticle Is blogging journalism? says,is not same as it is today nor will be same in future.However the point is not the praxtice but the priciciples, which has not changed and is unlikely to change.
I believe that citizen journalism has added a new dimesion to the exisitng body of journalistic practice and has helped both journlaism and society.It has added a new voice and anew perspective, which professional journalists should take seriously for further investigation.Citizen- journalism is cabable of providing new vantage points, locations and fresh point of views which may not be under any pressure and can often be classifed under" free voice".This can lead to new stories and orginal investigations by those who are appropriately trained.
Blogging will continue to create a more vibrant space of conversations,discussions and will continue to question any kind of media status-quo.This is a good news and I think it will stay.
Institutional blogs and blogs of mainstream journalists speaks volumes of the potential that blogging has in it.Blogging, therefore has added more to the traditional ways of journalistic distribution by making it avaible to the instant feeback of the general public, who can post a comment immedietly.Thus blogging is now performing a balancing act for the traditional journalistic modes and distribution.i think this go on and will continue to maintain a good segregation between what is journalistic-work and what is journalistic-junk
The new way to maintain my writing as blogs and make it available to a wider audience across the world at any time and day has made me more confident and agile in my opinions and expressions.I keep myslef more updated and abrest with what i write , read and express.
I feel more empowered, more reached and more heard and at the same time I feel more responsible as a blog writer and hence more cautious in terms of my fact-checks.It is sharpens my critical-reading skills, and objective-writing habits.
Syed, I am on your side. The sentence you quoted from John Pilger, "it is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and myths that surround it", is a powerful argument.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it is not the practice, but the principles which dictate what is and what isn't journalism. That is precisely why blogging can be journalism, provided that the blogger carries out their work with the core principles in mind. Blogs are just tools. Tools by which to spread information. Whether or not it is journalism depends on the information and how it is presented, not the tool used to spread it.
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