Are bloggers more trustworthy than journalists? #journalism
Though I strongly disagree with the juxtaposition of bloggers vs. journalists, I couldn’t find a better way to ask this question.
Ars Technica has a fantastic article with great sources from the media industry to back up their claim that readers trust bloggers more than journalists.
I chose a few sentences to excerpt below, but you really need to read the whole article if you’re into this sort of thing.
Amplify’d from arstechnica.com
If you follow US politics and opinion journalism even peripherally, then you know that the one thing that the entire political spectrum—right, center, and left—can agree on is that the American news media is in trouble. Of course, pundits from different ends of the spectrum disagree on their diagnoses of the problem and on their prescriptions for a cure.
Overall, the picture that emerges has two sides to it. First, top-tier bloggers themselves are better educated than top-tier newspaper columnists. So one of the main attractions of blogging and other forms of online-only publishing is that you get topical commentary from trained specialists and insiders, instead of from people whose only professional training is journalism school and whose very job description is that they’re professional outsiders.
The other part of the picture is the audience, which is more media savvy and is more interested in being treated as a peer by news sources.Read more at arstechnica.com
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