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Apples and Oranges

The comparisons should be between blogs and newspapers, and between professonal journalists and citizen journalists.

I have a hard time eating breakfast with a PC on the table instead of a newspaper. And I certainly can't take a PC into the bathroom to read it (much less use the PC to wipe my butt in case the latrine is out of toilet paper.) I can read a newspaper on take-off and landing and not have it confiscated by airport security either. Hardcopy still beats the PC hands down for portability.

Professional journalists have the training and credentials that can get them into places that citizen journalists can't. Professional journalist's columns are, on the average, far more accurate, brief, and concise (i.e. are readable, make sense, and don't ramble on forever) than citizen journalists.

A citizen journalist may know something that the professional does not, but only if they were actually present or did more research. However, most blog I've read are only derivitive in nature. They NEVER seem to have a scoop on the professional news; with the exception of cases where a news release was supressed by the government. (Yes Virginia, the government in the U.S. does violate the First Amendment whenever they think it's in their best interests and think they can get away with it.)

Posted by: Dr_Zinj   Posted on: 03/19/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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