Salvacion - Exercise 4A

Priscilla Mae Salvacion
COM127L - A98

Journalistic Blogs

These are the three (3) journalists' blogs that I chose:
1. Jon Slattery

2. Journalistics

3. J-scribe

There are a lot of advantages and disadvantages of blogging. Today, many people like professionals, freelance workers, and even students are using blogging websites to share their ideas and opinions about certain topics. The main advantage of this is that it freely gives you the time and space to let your thoughts be known throughout the Web. It allows you to express your feelings without having any doubts if people will agree or disagree with you. It is just a like a public diary where you can write down all of your life experiences and beliefs that may inspire the readers. But it's not only for personal use. It can also be used as a business or review blogs. People usually read various blogs as their basis when looking for comments and suggestions regarding a specific product or service. They seek others' opinion to know if the idea or product is effective or not. Sometimes, people trust the blogs more instead of what the company or agency is telling them. Another advantage of blogging is that it can improve the writing skills of the students. It makes them pursue a reasonably good article and avoid grammatical mistakes. If you are to make your own blog, you will know the benefits of it yourself.

On the other hand, the disadvantages of blogging are the opposite of its advantages. Blogging websites are public so you cannot claim the privacy of your work. Many people can read it just by searching some of the key words in your blog. Not only that, once you have gain potential readers, you need to update your blog everyday so they will have something to read the next time they visit your website. A blogger has its own responsibilities too. You need to gain the trust of the readers by writing the right information. Your credibility is important so that people will agree to what you are trying to say. Sometimes, there will be an opposing post that you may encounter so you should know how to manage it.

You can read some of the advantages and disadvantages of blogging here.

I observed a lot of commonalities in the three journalists' blogs that I have chosen. First, all of them stated their opinions regarding different things. They do not mostly agree to some of the trending topics that's why they post their own views about it. They encourage the people to know what's really behind every information that the media are telling them. What's good about it is that they give us the opportunity to see different sides of ideas to develop our logical reasoning concerning the given subject matter.

In an online environment, blogging is obviously different than news reporting. Blogging is more of sharing one's own opinion and ideas that influences other people while news reporting is more of facts and real situations that informs the people about what is happening around them. Blogging can also state facts but it doesn't give accurate information since some people have their own biases at some point. But in some way, both can give same information in different approaches.