Only 5% Of Bloggers Are Journalists

ObsessiveMathsFreak writes "A recent study has concluded that only 5% of bloggers have news as their primary topic. The study was conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, and found that 37 percent of the surveyed blogs were reporting on their personal life, 11 percent on political matters, 7 percent on entertainment, and 6 percent on sports. There's also plenty of extra data in the report itself. From the article: 'About 34 percent see their blogging as a form of journalism; 65 percent disagreed. Just over a third of the bloggers said they often conduct journalistically appropriate tasks such as verifying facts and linking to source material.'"

Comments

Re:Statistics

[mrdeadworry]

Duh, you just figured this out. Are all of you stupid. That is what blogging is about. Being yourself and writing what you want. Screw the establishment and freedon of speech rules. Get a clue and read the Constitution for a change. Exactly "So what percentage of journatlists are bloggers", literacy has nothing to do with journalism, sensationalism does though.

Re:100% of Bloggers are Worthless Sacks of Shit

[Fordiman]

Not flamebait. I wouldn't say 100%, but a large enough portion of bloggers are trite, boring, self- or useless shit-obsessed humans to make blog-spotting an unforgiving task at best.