Blogger good, journalist bad

Posted by Budi Putra on September 11th, 2006 filed in Blog, Bloggers, Blogging, Blogs, Internet, Media, Weblog, Weblogs

Arguing that blogosphere is better than mainstream — or vice versa — according to tech writer Serene Luo, is pointless.

However, she had an interesting experience on this matter. (The Straits Times, September 5 2006). She has been trying to interviews bloggers for a story.

But only four out of 10 of them replied, and more often than not, their initial responsed were laced with suspicion.
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Another blogger wrote to a more fampus peer to ask if I was for real.
I felt like I was at job interview.
But I can understand where they are coming from because the myth being perpetuated in online circle is “Blogger good, mainstream bad.”

Some blogs maybe inaccurate as well as some maintream media.

So whether someone is a blogger, journalist, both or neither, doesn’t matter. If he or she writes high-quality content, many readers will be highly apreciated. [A!]

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6 Responses to “Blogger good, journalist bad”

  1. Call Cruncher Says:
    September 11th, 2006 at 9:08 am

    True! Good article. Thanks for the post.

  2. Oskar Syahbana Says:
    September 11th, 2006 at 9:37 am

    Isn’t it something natural? Some alternatif sprout in somewhat different way from the ‘mainstream’ — although they mainly have the same concept, delivering information — then we have a handful of people living in a dream of elitism.

    Bloggers are no exception

  3. Firman Firdaus Says:
    September 13th, 2006 at 10:56 pm

    I don’t think comparing blogging and journalism is an ‘apple-to-apple’ comparison. they’re just different in many ways.

  4. kunderemp Says:
    September 14th, 2006 at 4:58 am

    Are you real? :p

  5. theAsiaTech Says:
    September 14th, 2006 at 9:39 pm

    @ Oskar:
    You’re right, bloggers are no exception. Indeed, indie media and mainstream media just a kind of medium, where bloggers and journalists should write accurately and if possible, deeply.

    @ Firman:
    The difference among them just come from the nature of each medium, right?

    @ kunderemp:
    Maybe :-)

  6. firman firdaus Says:
    December 4th, 2006 at 4:12 am

    IMHO, you must consider the historical yet philosophical defference among them.

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