Drudge A Blogger?
Don’t say that to his face. Even though he is.
CAF points out in the comments to the above link:
In Drudge’s view, as soon as you let the media classify you under some simpy focus group name, you are owned by them. He has said this on his radio show numerous times, call “bloggers” what they are - “journalists.” He’s right, and the think skinned panic reactions of the “blog” community to any perceived criticism is one of the most annoying things about them.But they aren’t journalists. They’re columnists and op-ed writers if anything. They link to news created by other people and then comment, providing a slanted insight but not actually doing much in the way of reporting anything new.
Now, this certainly isn’t across the board as there are times where a blog can scoop a media source or even provide first hand information overlooked in an article, but those instances are really far and few between and do not automatically make the medium full of reporters and journalists.
April 30th, 2005 at 6:45 pm
I really couldn’t agree with you more Jason. I .. as seen .. don’t really consider bloggers to be journalists either. At least not in the true sense of the word, “journalism.”
I’m as guilty as any blogger in only really representing one side of the story, my opinion on it.