I think it is. Blogging is basically a practice of journalism.
By it's own definition; journalist are those people who prepares news to be broadcast on various means. And this includes the Internet.
I think the big difference between the two is that blogging allows us to put up information at will. Blogs don't necessarily need to be filtered out, edited or organized to be published formally. It's where bloggers use this space to express themselves freely.That's where blogs are realized to be a valuable asset to spread information.
Key feature to a blog is the "follow" feature which enables users to subscribe to blog. You see, bloggers fuel their contents from everything that might catch the attention of readers. Slowly, they develop a style of writing of which people will constantly follow up with its content.
There's 2 types of blogging.
The first is blogging for private use. These blogs writes about personal life, hobby, interest and groups. Basically it's an online journal.
The second is blogging for public view. These blogs targets a high number of views and of course it is easily accessible. Their content covers an array of topic. From a totally pointless image blog to a serious online business to an on scene news.
What troubles me though is not knowing the origins of their sources. I really question their(bloggers) credibility to spread news/rumours. Some would make bizarre news just to get publicity in order to get more traffic into their site. In this case, more traffic, more chances for adsense right? More cash flowing in.
But i don't despise all news blogs. Some are pretty reliable and are better written when compared to the mainstream news. You just need to get to know who writes them and what are the reader's feedbacks.
Oh, and politics use blogs to promote their campaigns , propagandas and movements. That proves that blogs outsmart mainstream media for such purposes.
Brenden Undan
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but many bloggers are abuse the blog. they write whatever they like. :/ that is a big different between journalist and blogger
I think we've been putting journalism to a more professional definition. I think bloggers are slightly casual, less jerky writing and fun to read kind of journalism. Yes, they put up a lot of nonsense too and we can't do anything about it. They wrote it!
The most basic to becomes a journalist is to get used to blogging first.
Without blogging no journalist. :)
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