Is the blogging is the new form of journalism?

Is the blogging is the new form of journalism?
To me, no.

Blogger is a person who update and post something into their blog, in the internet. A person is not called as a blogger if he post something on newspaper, that is not a blogger. Anybody can become a blogger. Even the person is 5 years old.

While journalist ; journalist is a person who working with media, whether it is traditional media or electronic media. They write certain topic, based on fact.

To become a journalist, there a certain criteria the journalist should follow. Yes, they learn this before they can officially become the journalist. Maybe in the university, college. Different with blogging, anybody can become a bloggers. With a condition, they can acces to the internet. Blogging doesnt need you to study something for a specific year.

In the new era, yes there are some of the bloggers, who does not like the mainstream media. So they become a "journalist" by writing the news in their own blog. They like to call themselve independent journalist. Some of them, try to tell the real fact, about certain news, that sometimes censored in mainstream media. Yes, this is an example of good bloggers who want to be the journalist. But not all of the journalist is try to tell the real story, some of them just like to write something, that is not true and even, that is not a fact. This is the main reason why i don't want to acknowledge blogger as a journalist.

What I am trying to say here is, I am not agree with the statement, that bloggers are journalist. Yes, they can become a journalist, if they really want to. But then, they must learn, the ethic and criteria, before they call themselve a journalist.

In a counclusion, we can see, blogging is subjective, while journalism, it is more specific, in term of writing about certain topic. A blogger too must be responsible of what they writing, as much as journalist responsible of what they wrote.

Awang Khairul Aqmal
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