I have to agree with the point being reached for here. Just because something is printed on paper and stuck between two covers doesn't make it a novel. It doesn't make it a textbook. It doesn't make it a cook book. It makes it a BOOK.
There are two sides to this. It's not appropriate to say all blogs are not works of journalistic effort - many are. On the other hand, bloggers should be just as accountable to what they write and publish no matter what genere they most identify themselves with. There's a confusion here we're all buying into. That confusion is that big media companies are never challenged. I say they are but in any prevailing assessment of the odds or cost they are not challenged OFTEN. But that doesn't change the fundamental energy. The inertia to challenge what one doesn't like written or said about them is still there. Bloggers are just easy targets without any corporate backing.
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I have to agree with the point being reached for here. Just because something is printed on paper and stuck between two covers doesn't make it a novel. It doesn't make it a textbook. It doesn't make it a cook book. It makes it a BOOK.
There are two sides to this. It's not appropriate to say all blogs are not works of journalistic effort - many are. On the other hand, bloggers should be just as accountable to what they write and publish no matter what genere they most identify themselves with. There's a confusion here we're all buying into. That confusion is that big media companies are never challenged. I say they are but in any prevailing assessment of the odds or cost they are not challenged OFTEN. But that doesn't change the fundamental energy. The inertia to challenge what one doesn't like written or said about them is still there. Bloggers are just easy targets without any corporate backing.
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