Be cautious of the site you are reading

 Internet is the greatest invention which provides lots of information about news, social media, education, historical events and so on that cannot be expressed by words. There is no such information that we don’t get from the internet and this is the main thing which makes the internet more popular day by day. But the thing is from the source we are taking our information is it legitimate or not. Nowadays it is not a big deal for anyone to change the information and publishing the wrong information. Anyone who has the basic skills of computer operating is able to post an article, although the article is full of wrong information it does not matter (Example: Wikipedia, blogs, face book promotion ads etc). Because of small numbers of officially authorized issues (outside copyright law) are leading the web.

From my experience, I don’t prefer to take what is on internet as truth. Before taking any information from the internet I always do research more than three sources on the web which help me to come up with a clear concept about my research topic. But Most of the people have tendency to believe what they see in the internet. I have seen most of the people especially students for their assignment purposes, whatever is written on internet they just do copy and paste without thinking anything.  They don’t even think also the site information is accurate or not.

Recently, my friend did a research about some exercise centers.  She visited one of those exercise centers just because she wanted to see whether there service good or not. After visiting there, she realized 60% information that they posted in their website it’s not true.

Therefore I would like to say that, before taking any information from any website, we have to be cautious about the site that we are reading and be sure to acquire information from reliable sources like official websites. Most important thing, we should use our common sense before stating something that we got from internet as a fact. So that, making the right decisions, we should have the right information.

Are Bloggers Journalists

I researched this week topic but I couldn't get a specific topics talking about this matter, our generation have reach a high stage of using Internet and Web until it became their media! or in other words "free media" as they can freely express their ideas without anyone affecting their beliefs, and since we all now believe that Internet have a major affection on people now days they find bloging is the most efficient way to deliver their message, just like any journalist, and since the journalists basically document "create reports as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media" Then blogers are also journalist except they use Internet as there media

Blogging Inventing Journalism

                       
In this life style everyone knows what is the means of blogging “A blog (a blend of the term web log) is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.” 

 


                         As well we know what is the meaning of journalism “Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the citizenry. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and business, journalism also covers cultural aspects of society such as arts and entertainment. The field includes editing, photojournalism, and documentary.” We can see there is clear different between blogging and journalism but, all over the year a question keep coming to us that does blog inventing journalism or not.

In recent weeks, the debate regarding the differences between blogging and journalism has re-emerged. A now-infamous blog post by Jolie O’Dell, which touched on her ideas on the distinctions between blogging and journalism, has sparked a good deal of discussion in the blogging community about what the two disciplines have in common. The debate essentially boils down to a larger question of identity for bloggers. Is a blogger a journalist? Is there a sharp distinction between the two disciplines, or has time blurred that line to an extent? Everyone from Ms. O’Dell, to our own Alex Wilhelm and Martin Bryant, to traditional media sources have weighed in on the issue. 

“In an exclusive interview with TNW, David S. Broder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post White House Correspondent, highlighted the lingering issues with the blogosphere in an interview, saying that “You can’t just sit on your computer all day. You need to get off your butt, go out there and interview sources, investigate the issue yourself and then write what you’ve learned.””

As David said yeah he is right sitting in front of computer and publishing some unprofessional or illegal work won’t make you is a journalist so, you have to browse more outer world to achieve the truth or fact of the story and to be a professional and illegal journalist since, according to this current world  situation journalism stand by internet via air all over the world for instance,“ Monday’s revelation that a single analyst (Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray) asserted that an Apple television is on the cards for 2012, and many blogs jumped on the story, neglecting the fact that the same analyst made the exact same prediction at the exact same time last year. The unfortunate reality of the short news cycle is that bloggers sometimes have to take a flying leap onto a story to get it out there.”  According to example we can clearly define most of the readers are walk with internet so, they follows the unprofessional and fabrication information and believing them and their voice is rising for their words then, the truth is blog is inventing the journalism because people choose the wrong path to find the information until now the journalism track is upside down. Since there in another angle there are plenty of trusty bloggers that you can find via air that you can find truth of the journalism and specialized works in the field so completely we can’t say the journalism is not connect with blog, its connected more than 50% but that percentage is full of untruth works so, until people choose their correct path Is debate won’t end and blog will invent journalism…………..

Reference:-

http://thenextweb.com/us/2010/08/18/blogging-vs-journalism-the-ongoing-debate/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

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