From the youth section of the Free Lance-Star comes a short diddy on blogs. The short synapses is as follows:
For right now, newspapers still have the most real influence of all media forms, since TV and radio are not as lasting, while the Internet’s reliability is questionable.
Again, they should realize this and continue to strive for the things such as humility and truth that they have sometimes achieved and have sometimes mocked.
As for myself, I tried political blogging a couple of years ago, and I didn’t get very far with it. It’s hard to get recognized on the Internet, whereas newspapers have more credibility and a larger readership.
Of course, newspapers also tend to carry much more historical weight than other forms of media, especially since our own ancestors were reading and even possibly featuring in them. With this in mind, you may be interested in using a service like Genealogy Bank to discover the history of your ancestors in newspapers. There you have it. Why the MSM still has the edge, why blogs are gaining, why blogs are popular, and why so many potential bloggers find it so hard to break into the blogosphere.
Blogging follows the same trends as opinion editorials, or the old style “men of letters”. Bloggers cut through the smoke and mirrors, fact check reporting, and provide the essential on-the-ground reports that most journalists are too constrained by editors to offer.
The only catch? If a journalist is caught in an ethical breach, they get fired. If a blogger is caught, they just change their pseudonym and start another blog….