When i first walked into this class, i have a define line in my head between a journalist and a blogers. A journalist to me was a certified reporter who carried around notebooks and tape recorders and was always on the lookout for hard hitting news. A blogers in my mind was some one in their dark basement who was constantly on the computer just writing about stories they see on the internet instead of going out and finding a story. interesting

      So I sound like a total hyproicit because here i am bloging. However my eyes have been opened up and that strict line i had between journalist and bloggers is starting fade more and more to me. Recently we talked about "Networked Journalism" 

Heres the concept of how we learned it in class-

Collaborative nature of journalism
     - Professionals, amateurs working together
     - Focus on process, not product
Public gets involved in story before it gets reported
     -  Contributes facts, questions, suggestions
       -Helps report the story
Journalists link to other work on same story
       -Source material, blog posts
Public continues contributions after publication
   [Definition by Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine]

   This is when i really was having a hard time trying to draw that define line between the two. I started researching blogs and seeing whats out there and comparing a blogers version of news and a real anchorman version of news . Here is  an example of a CNN blog and this is another random news blog i found on google. The difference between them? not a huge amount.

 Obvisouly as citizens we trust major new networks as a good source for news. However in todays day and age is it true? can anyone just be a journalist?  If i posted a story and a story here on campus and the school newspaper had the same story and same facts, what is the difference?  If you are reading the same thing with same facts, does it really make a difference between a paid journalists behind  desk, and a blogers out in a world? I used to think so but now i am not to sure. 

 There are still many things i have to take into consideration however it is a good thing to think about. What are your thoughts?

This is also a 10 min video for fun asking the same thing. This guy makes some good points and has an interesting view.

It's Our News, not yours!

   Yesterday in class we watched "Frontline News War: Part II".  It was really eye opening for me because i never really thought that news was feeling so threatened by todays technology. However there were many things in the video i have to disagree with, i believe they took some things too far. When they started discussing how news today is "different" and we are told what we "want" to hear not what we "need" to hear. When they discussed this it really struck a nerve in me. We have these old fashioned news reporters who keep dwelling on how news used to be so crisp and honest and it was "real journalism" ect. I think its silly that they think that. I hate to break it to them, but we don't live in the 50s anymore! we don't all gather around our one black and white T.V. set and watch NBC news with the family. They think that we aren't growing up the way they did we are brain washed and not getting the right news. THIS IS NOT TRUE. these old fashioned ways of news reporting are going out of date because we living in a booming generation. Just because we like scandals and celebrities on the news doesn't mean we getting worthless news, this is what matters to us, and it doesn't make us "unaware" we keep up with things that are important to us. 

     Why do we all have to have the same news?  We all have different interests, activities, and schedules, we don't all have to listen to the same news broadcast like in the old days. Today there are thousands of ways to keep yourself updated on things that matter to you. i believe that even newsptheapers feel a threat to the booming internet and cell phones taking over, they still have an audience that likes to sit and read the paper on a sunday afternoon. They should focus less on trying to break into a new demographic and focus on their target audience. Yes they may not make profit, but back in the old days journalism wasn't about "profit" it was about informing people about whats going on in the world. This makes me extremely frustrated that we have to have a bunch of old guys telling us what is news just because they haven't adapted to todays technology. They should worry about their precious news and not about poking into our business and let us keep ourselves updated in our ways. Wether its twitter, or "the daily show", its not up to old broadcasters to tell us what is news and what is not. 

      In the end We do not all have to follow one mans idea of news  If that means a war or a juicy breakup, to each his own, "news" has no concrete definition. In this new age of technology there is a wave of possibilities and oppurtitnes for people and their news. we control our own news and we can keep track of whats important to us.

-Kelley Farrell