Blogging Articles

Michael Skube writes about how bloggers should not be considered journalists. He says that journalism is not just a hobby like blogging is for most people. Michael Skube feels that blogging is hurting the journalism and reporting fields. The article describes how blogging is becoming more and more popular, and that the blogs are a side hobby that bloggers do and they are very opinionated. Another journalist finds it very strange that the bloggers are mostly blogging for free and doesn't understand why anyone would write for free. Bloggers feel that they are a new kind a journalist that give opinions and their views not only the politically "right" views. Bloggers are challenging journalism and politics with their blogs, because they can write about what ever they want and do not have to adhere to any of the rules that journalist that write for newspapers have to. A famous journalist Lasch, once wrote that what democracy needs is a debate, not information like facts and numbers but what people think about and their opinions and ideas. This was written before blogging had occurred, and bloggers agree with it completely. Michael Skube on the other hand feels that the blogging sensation and their ideas and opinions are less important than Lasch had said they would be. Michael Skube feels that blogging should not be considered journalism because journalists and reporters face dangers to get their information and that they spend much more time on an article than a blogger does on a blog post. Bloggers do not check their facts like journalists have to because to bloggers their opinions are more important then the facts.
Michael Skube's article and Andrew Sullivan's article are both about blogging and how it is changing the journalism field, but their views on blogging are completely opposite. Andrew Sullivan is a blogger, and also a journalist for the New York Times, but he feels that blogging is the more important one because he gets to express his opinion without having to be politically correct. Michael Skube is a writer for the Los Angeles Times, and believes that blogging is hurting the journalism field because articles need facts not opinions. Andrew Sullivan feels that news articles are opinionated but factual opinions because if the writer's opinions were in the story then the article would not be a editorial. The articles are still opinionated though because the writer can pick the facts that only support his ideas and leave out the ones that oppose him ideas. The two men both agree that blogs are very opinionated, one-minded, and the bloggers emotions towards the topics are very known to the readers.
I agree with Andrew Sullivan more than Michael Skube, although he makes some good points. In my opinion Andrew Sullivan's argument is better because it is better to know other's opinions on certain matters, especially because if you read a news article they are harder to read because it is all facts. With news articles you also have to pick out the facts and you would never get both sides of a story from 1 news article. I feel that blogging is helping the journalism field, and the country because people can get their thoughts out their for others to see without having to pay a lot of money and without having to have someone else agree and think that their thoughts will make money.