Some larger mainstream media like to pooh pooh blogging because they think its too subjective. Thats hypocritical and mainstream media has a vested interest in portraying themselves as being a superior form of journalism adhering to special professional standards of accuracy. B.S…

Nothing could be further from the truth. Both the owners of mainstream media and the people who work for them have their own agendas which morph into what becomes ‘the news’.

Thats why theres no real difference between bloggers and mainstream media. Its all just more unnecessary informational junk which makes no real difference to the quality of life you experience.

Do you really feel happier knowing more?

Once again… its all just more B.S.

From Stuff.co.nz

Robert Thompson, a media studies professor at Syracuse University, said it was important to preserve the distinctions between professional journalism and personal commentary.

He defined professional journalism as reporting which adheres to standards of accuracy and writing subjected to an editorial process, and all done with an eye to journalistic ethics, although he said journalism often falls short of these goals.

“There is a distinction between something that has gone through an editorial process as opposed to something put up by someone that has been through none of those processes,” Thompson said.

But media critic Jeff Jarvis, author of the blog Buzzmachine (http://www.buzzmachine.com), said major internet sites such as Yahoo and Google continue to patronize bloggers by treating them as secondary sources of news.

Jarvis, who is a former TV critic for TV Guide and People magazines, mocked the notion that journalists live by a shared set of professional standards, that they are better trained or more trustworthy than the anyone-can-join blog movement.

“What made the voice of the people somehow less important than the paid professional journalist?” he asked. “You don’t need to have a degree, you don’t need to have a paycheck, you don’t need to have a byline,” Jarvis said.

“If you inform the public, you are committing an act of journalism,” he declared.