Is a blogger a journo?
A highly pertinent question, as this NY Times article by Tom Zeller Jr. illustrates:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/technology/11apple.html
As a blogging journalist, I am happy to see the same legal rights extended to 'non-professional' bloggers as long as they are willing to be judged by the standards of professional media organisations. Bad writing, sloppy research and unsubstantiated gossip should be as unwelcome in the blogosphere as in the traditional media channels. Let us all aspire to the standards of the best, rather than drag the best down into the mire with the rest of us.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/technology/11apple.html
As a blogging journalist, I am happy to see the same legal rights extended to 'non-professional' bloggers as long as they are willing to be judged by the standards of professional media organisations. Bad writing, sloppy research and unsubstantiated gossip should be as unwelcome in the blogosphere as in the traditional media channels. Let us all aspire to the standards of the best, rather than drag the best down into the mire with the rest of us.
posted by Justin Toland at 7:36 pm
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