The article that I read about blogging was called “Ad shift throws blogs a Business Lifetime” and can be found at this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/technology/internet/14blog.html
As if reading the over-exaggerated headlines while standing in line at the grocery store wasn’t enough, a woman named Lisa Sugar began blogging about celebrity gossip in her free time. Does Brittany Have custody? Is Miley preggers? Is Lohan a Lesbian?! As intriguing as this may be, I still don’t (and never will) understand why Lisa Sugar would willingly and religiously keep a blog about the lives and lies of the famous. Despite all that it wrong with gossip, she reported it and over time gathered a large amount of followers. The question of whether bloggers can be considered as journalists can be answered in a few different ways. This is because there are many different kinds of blogs- which is new to me. In my first blog, I ranted that blogs are used as a stupid outlet for people to give out bits and pieces of their insignificant lives for all to read. I was partly correct, but there is more to it than that. There are many blogs out there that are significant to everyday life, giving out the news and interesting artiles. In that regard, I would say yes you could refer to the author of a blog as a journalist.

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