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Blogging: the new Journalism
This site is from the UK but still is very informative as far as the how blogging is changing the face of journalism. I found this site while looking for some international sites and after looking through it, found it very intriguing. This particular article may be useful in my research.
The reason I chose this site is because the site layout is very well put together, in my opinion, but at the same time it’s simple. The article is written by an actual journalist, which makes it more believable and hopefully more accurate than say if it were written by a blogger.
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Dullard Mush:Blogging and Journalism
At first glance, I thought this site would be a useful one for my project. I was wrong. Though I like simple, this one seemed too simple and also didn’t include much information that I could use in my research. Another reason I put this site on my ‘worst’ list was becuase I couldn’t find any information about the author. I feel uncomfortable using information in my research on someone I know nothing about, especially if it’s from someone else’s blog. So I know nothing about this Dullard Mush person and decided to pass on this article.
Actually, Dullard Mush is a political blog with an emphasis on Nevada. It isn’t a journalism/blogging-specific site, so not sure if it warrants a “Worst” (though I guess bad publicity is better than none).
The article referenced above was just a link to someone else discussing the topic. It did, though, also link to a past journalism vs. blogging incident in which DM was involved (which I’m not sure if you read).
That entailed a local reporter who covered candidates for his paper, as news stories not opinion, but also maintained a personal blog that was highly partisan. He also threatened another blogger and tipped off a candidate friend of his to a possible investigation.
The topic of whether a supposed unbiased reporter could also run a partisan blog on the side and not hurt the integrity of their stories and paper prompted an interesting comment thread on a UNR journalism blog. I also solicited opinions from other journalism experts.
In the end, most thought it was a bad idea and a few suggested it was a disgrace to journalism and the offending reporter should be fired. And after his actions were exposed by a few blogs, he was.