Miniature Media

Ok so seriously, this was my soccer team freshman year in high school. Katie Kohler, If you are reading this, you know it’s true. We didnt win a single game. anyway thought you might find this humorous.

In an effort to write a paper for one of my communications classes, I have ventured out into the vast world of the internet, only to find that people frustrate the crap out of me. There is a preconceived idea of journalism, and all that it has to offer (truth, objectivity, rhetoric, etc.), and so we find ourselves in this endless debate about whether or not bloggers are journalists. My first question for those who don’t think so is why? but I find that the common answer (at least from these blogs I have read) is that blogs don’t offer these things. They aren’t credible, they are too biased, they are just a bunch of gossip, or they weren’t investigated properly. Need I remind you that the mass media-newspapers, TV, radio- all make mistakes. The whole Dan Rather scandal was certainly not investigated properly, nor was anything that was said true. AP’s faux-tography–same deal. And don’t talk to me about biased. We all know that Katie Couric is as liberal as they come, and that FOX news isnt reporting things from all sides, but leans more towards the conservative side of things. As for radio, I would certainly consider Rush Limbaugh a journalist–he tells me the news–relevant or not–but he is most certainly biased. So if our basis for the definition of journalism is going to be these things (truth, objectivity, rhetoric) then there is no such thing as true journalism–OR we can change the definition, in which case bloggers should definately be included. Bloggers publish news everyday–they create, amplify, spur on news. They are editors, publishers, journalists, and diary-keepers all in one. They keep the world informed. They are journalism at it’s most flexible, convenient, time-effective degree.