Writing is a source of communication. It gives you an opportunity to think and view things from different perspectives. Journalistic writing is no doubt a specific kind of writing
in which your choice of words or language is very much sophisticated
and formal, in other words journalistic. While the new media, i-e Blogs,
is also emerging day by day and getting popular among masses. Even newspaper had started blogging at their official websites.
According to your opinion, how much blogging is different from our traditional journalistic writing? Logically discuss with examples. Also discuss what are the difference between a News story and a Blog?
Solution:
For the most part, blogging is not journalism. That’s my response to
the longstanding debate about whether bloggers are journalists. Bloggers
who don’t apply good standards of journalism shouldn’t be offered the
same privileges as journalists. Similarly, journalists who fail to apply the same good standards should be stripped of privileges and prestige.
The basic principle is this: There are at least two sides to any
story, usually more. Real journalists present all sides of a story,
using multiple sources for balance and doing original reporting wherever possible. A quick survey
of blogs reveals that many bloggers reporting news generally offer one
side of the story. This one-sided difference is partly responsible for
the Web being polluted by gossip, rumor and innuendo posing as news.
