Despite my self-imposed news diet this week, I am keeping on top of blogging, marketing and PR news using RSS feeds since I feel it's central to my job.
eWeek has an article that states that bloggers and blogging are killing journalism as we know it. The writer, Scott Petersen, notes this is scary but not necessarily bad.
Petersen writes:
Still more bloggers see themselves as the new journalists. Many readers turn to blog news sites because they disdain "mainstream" journalism, which is viewed almost as an anachronism full of lazy co-conspirators in the national decline. Who can blame them after The New York Times' fiasco of Jayson Blair, who was caught last year making up his stories? Meanwhile, as the blog sites proliferate, they become sources of their own news, a lot of it rumor, which then takes on a life of its own.
So blog on. If left to market forces, most blogs will live or die on their own. But get used to an era in which information becomes so ubiquitous it becomes almost useless. With a national election coming up, the stakes are high, so it's blogger—and bloggee—beware.
