Journalism is expected to be objective and reliable, ... Blogs, on the other hand, are subjective and independent, and come with no guarantee of truth... Interestingly enough, a survey of blog readers by the advertising company Blogads showed that they visit blogs precisely because they see them as more credible than mainstream media (Rettberg 91-92).
While journalism is expected to be truthful and accurate, blogs are an independent variable in the writing world. However, in a recent survey conducted by Blogads, it was concluded that blog readers view blogs because the feel more reliable than mainstream media.
This passage is interesting to me because I feel like it somewhat points out the stupidity in America. Because blogs have no rules and regulations, fake blogs can easily be made up. Salam Pax was supposedly an Iraqi living in Iraq while America was invading, but no one knows this to be fact. Yes, there are many flaws to mainstream media, I'm thinking of the Watergate scandal, but these reports are still more credible than blog reports. Fiction, at times, can be hard to spot, so why trust anyone who blogs? Especially those who use psyedonyms, although people who use their "real name" could be lying just as frequently. Im concerned with where America is going if blogging really does become a new form of news communication and traditional sources i.e. television, newspapers, magazines, become obsolete.
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