So, here is my new one. The funny thing is that most “real” journalists as you mention don’t have standards or ethics either (well we pretend to). Let’s not forget all the scandals they have rocked mainstream media lately. Or how bloggers helped uncover some journalism scandals (Dan Rather anyone?)

It doesn’t make sense to consider all bloggers journalists, is that many have no intention of being journalists. The original “Web logs” where just that — online journals of people’s lives. The vast majority of bloggers have no intention of ever being journalists.

But blogging is just a publishing platform. At beatblogging.org you’ll find many examples of real journalists using blogging to cover their beats better (and other online, social networking tools).

Asking if blogging is journalism is like asking if desktop publishing is journalism. The answer is sometimes.

Read some of my latest posts and listen to some of my latest interviews, and then come back and laugh about blogging.

It’s just a publishing platform. Nothing more. Nothing less.

http://blip.tv/file/1041166

“Some are. Most aren’t.”

My answer to this question has always been “It depends. Is the blogger operating journalistically, or using his or her blog for something else, such as self-expression, public diary, etc?”

I then often follow with: “If I owned a printing press, does that make me a journalist?”