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• Journalism (Score:1)

  by educated_foo (3106)

  Blogging may not be journalism, but it can certainly help journalism [dailykos.com] by allowing a journalist to see much more than would be possible with just his/her own reporting. In part, the paid journalist becomes a BS filter on the "blogosphere".

  Granted, most people's blogs (like most people's lives) are mostly mundane, and therefore not useful in this way. But then again, people blogging about their day-to-day lives are probably not deluded enough to think they are recording their genius for posterity. Not eve
  • Re:Journalism (Score:3, Informative)

    by pudge (1) on 2003.08.26 14:14 (#23509) Homepage Journal

    Blogging may not be journalism, but it can certainly help journalism by allowing a journalist to see much more than would be possible with just his/her own reporting.
    
    Yes, a reporter sees much more about an accident by interviewing witnesses than by just looking at the accident itself. :-) That doesn't make them unique or interesting, it makes them common, which, I suppose, in a little computer world where most of what happens is inconsequential, is an accomplishment.

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