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Is Blogging Journalism?
An anonymous reader writes "In the wake of the judge's refusal to extend journalist protections to Think Secret in its case against Apple, the Net is abuzz with commentaries coming to its defense. MacInTouch points to three of them, from CNET's Declan McCullagh, MP3 Newswire's Richard Menta and grassroots journalism pundit Dan Gillmor. All agree that Apple went too far with its case and question the court's decision that Web journalists don't count."
This is slightly off-topic, but I don't get some people's vitriol against Fox News. It's hard news has never been shown to be biased, and in fact a UCLA/Stanford study declared Fox News as the most centrist news organization, with CNN slightly left of center.
I think some people purposely confuse the news analysts' shows like The O'Reilly Factor with the hard news segments that are just journalists reporting facts. CNN is currently getting slaughtered by Fox News, so it means one of two things:
1.) The majority of news viewers don't think Fox News is biased.
2.) Fox News is biased after all, and therefore the majority of viewership is conservative, contrary to what Michael Moore tells us.
As for blogging being a form of journalism, I don't see what's so journalistic about revealing Apple's trade secrets and upcoming products into the greedy hands of competitors. That's not loving Apple, that's fucking them over and justifying it with a journalist's hat.
At the risk of angering everyone on Slashdot, many of whom are probably bloggers...
Has anyone else run into the problem of blog entries largely killing your ability to find useful information on particular topics? I've had a couple experiences recently where I was trying to find specific info via Google; but it seemed like the first 100 or so results were worthless blog rants.
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