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March 5, 2005

Are Blogs The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened to Journalism?

Topics: Blogosphere

According to Ralph Kinney Bennett, a semi-retired veteran of what he says was long ago called "the newspaper game," blogs have made the game more exciting and challenging than ever before. He thinks that bloggers are the best thing that has ever happened to journalism, and of course I couldn't agree more.

(...) They make a good reporter look better. They expose the phonies, the poseur, the fast-writing conmen, with the speed of light.

(...)  They give the journalist a greater access to more information and informational context than ever before.

(...) They provide swift exposure to varied points of view, and, most importantly, a constant, sometimes rough, but always important gauge of a reporter's skill, judgment, industriousness and integrity.

(...)  Never before has weak reporting, biased reporting, dishonest reporting, or lazy reporting been more swiftly exposed.

Ralph goes on to say that "the whole idea of whether journalism is indeed a profession -- or just a happy combination of craft, curiosity, cleverness and confidence tricks -- is being tested for the first time out there in the ether."




Posted by Hyscience at March 5, 2005 1:30 PM


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