Journalistic Integrity, or Lack Thereof
Nov. 9th, 2004 08:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianOnce more, from Slashdot, apparently bloggers lack journalistic integrity...
Although it makes some interesting points, it seems somewhat a grab for attention in and of itself: don't believe the bloggers, listen to us instead!
In a poem I wrote back in 2001 ( roadkill ), I gathered up thoughts and impressions I had collected over the years - having nothing to do with blogs specifically - about how newspapers, and the journalists reporting for them, seemed to be failing. Like much of the writing advice I had seen in print in the 90's, newspapers seemed to be publishing material written for television scripts - lots of action, little substance, and in a sensationalist vein.
Perhaps the bloggers should focus a bit more and strive for journalistic integrity - that is, if they are trying to sell themselves off as something that should be held to such standards. Readers, however, certainly have some responsibility, at the least understanding that blogs are the opinions of the writer and the reality they write of may or may not be an accurate rendering.
As far as that goes, perhaps it is the dumbing down of the other media - who so often are accused of, and at least on occasion commit, similar sins regarding integrity - that have resulted in a populace trained to accept whatever they read as pre-digested and analyzed content that doesn't require independent thought.
Although it makes some interesting points, it seems somewhat a grab for attention in and of itself: don't believe the bloggers, listen to us instead!
In a poem I wrote back in 2001 ( roadkill ), I gathered up thoughts and impressions I had collected over the years - having nothing to do with blogs specifically - about how newspapers, and the journalists reporting for them, seemed to be failing. Like much of the writing advice I had seen in print in the 90's, newspapers seemed to be publishing material written for television scripts - lots of action, little substance, and in a sensationalist vein.
Perhaps the bloggers should focus a bit more and strive for journalistic integrity - that is, if they are trying to sell themselves off as something that should be held to such standards. Readers, however, certainly have some responsibility, at the least understanding that blogs are the opinions of the writer and the reality they write of may or may not be an accurate rendering.
As far as that goes, perhaps it is the dumbing down of the other media - who so often are accused of, and at least on occasion commit, similar sins regarding integrity - that have resulted in a populace trained to accept whatever they read as pre-digested and analyzed content that doesn't require independent thought.