Blogs Are Change and Blogs Are About Change

Last week I got into a discussion with a friend who is a working reporter for our local paper. The topic was blogging and what place if any it held in the profession of journalism. It’s a relatively new concept but one which is growing rapidly. I saw figures today that claimed there were 10,000,000 blogs on line. The number of active ones is a different question. Many blogs start out as a curiosity for a writer who has what at first seems like a promising idea but shortly becomes a chore.

In the traditional view I think it’s hard to make a case for blogging being journalism since the vast majority of bloggers do not have, among other things, primary sources, confirming sources or editors to review their work. It would certainly be a stretch to call what they write news as we have conditioned ourselves to think of news. On the other hand, the first car that rolled off Henry Ford’s assembly line wasn’t what our great grandparents thought of as personal transportation either.

Looks as if it’s time for another paradigm shift…

That’s my story and I sticking to it…..