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Are Blogs the Future of Journalism?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the let's-hope-not dept.

jnf82 writes "Recently bloggers were part of the forces compelling Trent Lott to resign as Senate majority leader and Dan Rather to apologize to viewers on national television -- leaving many to ponder if blogs could someday supplant traditional journalism. More likely they'll become a 'fifth estate' keeping watch over mainstream media and politics, says Dan Drezner and Henry Farrell in Foreign Policy Magazine's current issue. So will the new media revolution be blogged? 'No,' says Anna Marie Cox, author of Wonkette, 'A revolution requires that people leave their house.'"

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  1. No. by News+for+nerds · · Score: 1, Funny

    I bet this story is a dupe.

  2. Why... by which+way+is+up · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why read to an uneducated idiots opinion when you can read to an educated idiots opinion.

    1. Re:Why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Why read an uneducated idiots opinion, when you can write an uneducated idiots opinion.

  3. Am I seeing this correctly? by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Foreign Policy magazine is being linked to from Slashdot? What's next? Martha Stewart Living?

  4. Blogs filled with misinformation by MojoRilla · · Score: 4, Funny

    The problem is that blogs are filled with misinformation. People need news companies to filter out the crap.

    Perhaps blogs will some day be fact checked, and reliable.

  5. I can see it now.... by DebianDog · · Score: 2, Funny

    It has been posted on 5+ blog sites. "News verified"

    Instant Urban Legend News thanks to RSS and Google... LOL

  6. A complete disservice to blogging. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dismissing blogs with a monsyllabic answer is utterly unfair. Are blogs the future of journalism? Hell no.

  7. from the let's-hope-not dept.? by Xofer+D · · Score: 5, Funny

    Considering this is posted on a blog claiming to be a news site, this is clearly from the slashdot-irony-meta-dept.

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  8. @ Home by suso · · Score: 2, Funny

    'A revolution requires that people leave their house.'

    What about the "stay at home" revolution? Doesn't that one count?

  9. Perhaps it's no coincidence... by hunterx11 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The "Mr. X" episode of the Simspons ran here yesterday. When Homer ran out of news, he had to resort to making it up. Slashdot of course, just reposts old news.

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  10. The REAL future of journalism :) by davidwr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Blogs are the future of op-ed.

    John Stewart is the future of journalism.

    These guys are the future of comedy.

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