1.) Do you agree with the article that major media sources will not die out?
2.) What will be the effects of part-time bloggers bringing down professional journalists?
3.) What are the implications of the bloggers also being activists?
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I think my comments on Brittany's piece can also relate to this. I didn't follow this incident closely enough to say much about it, but I agree that blogging will probably not lead to the demise of real media. It will simply continue to challenge it, maybe even making it better (fingers crossed).
I think this article is not a news piece. This article, to me, is a blog written about bloggers. This story examined the facts and offered the authors opinion about them.
The final two paragraphs of the piece summarize it all. I do not think that main stream media will die out because people need the truth, and people need real journalists to investigate and find out the facts for them. I think that both forms of journalism can co-exist well because journalists like feedback on their stories, and people like offering their own opinion and in some cases looking into issues themselves.
The very last sentence of the article says this story has been corrected since it was originally published...that tells me the author maybe should have taken her own advice an held off publishing the story as she suggested Rather's story should have.
The problem we can run into is that people have lost faith in corperate news gathering, and may be willing to except the word of lesser news gathering, if nothing than because it is popular.
I do think that it will take more than blogs to take traditional news down, but at the same time its current structures is too cumbersome for modern times.
Another thing that worries me is that a large enough number of political activists could hypothetically could could brute force by sheer number the belief that a story is false whether or not it is.
Thoughts.
I don't think that the major media sources will die out because people will always want a name to trust. A blog won't be able to do that, whereas something like the New York Times or CNN will be able to do that. However, I do think that the media sources will be changing. I think that people will continue to use blogging and it will just be a way to hold journalists to reporting the facts. I hate to say it, but before the internet, it was really hard for the public to question the news, they just accepted it. But now with all of the resources at our fingertips, it will just be a way to make sure that journalists are reporting fair and accurate news.
People pay attention to "trusted" news sources... thats the way it will always be. If the web becomes the dominate source for news information... than those sites who are trusted will be the most visited. So for the blogging community who thinks it will take over the news media, they have a long way to go.
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