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THE BATTLEOVER
BLOGS
Rachel BeermanAddison Montague
Hillary HarperWhitney Player
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Blogs In General• Blogs… Making News Personal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
• Different Mediums– Text, Video (vlog), Photographs (photoblog), Music (MP3
blog), audio (podcasting), etc.
• Categories Covered– News, Political, Sports, Celebrities, Personal, etc.
• Anyone can start a blog!
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The History Of Blogs
• Modern blogs evolved as online diaries– First started by a student at Swarthmore College (1994)
• The name was originally weblogs– Jorn Barger shortened this name to “blogs” – Blogging seemed to really take off around 1999-2000
• Which leads us to blogs today . . .
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Fun Facts• 14.2 million Web logs and more than 1.3 billion links
• The blogosphere continues to double about every 5 ½ months
• New blog every second; more than 80,000 created each day
• About 900,000 blog posts created everyday
or 10.4 blog posts per second on average
• Only 46% blog under their own name
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Transparency
• Tells how a reporter got his or her information
• Crucial in determining credibility
• Provides access to a materials origin
• Ethical responsibility to hold yourself accountable
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Rebuttal
• Its unrealistic to believe that every blog is going to state its author
• Part of the allure of blogging is being anonymous
• According to freedom of speech, it is not required for the author to state his name
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Transparency
• Authors should have the right to choose anonymity
• Reader’s responsibility to determine whether the information is legitimate
– 53% of the population doesn’t trust everything they hear on the news
– Americans should be able to judge the information provided in a blog
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Rebuttal
• It’s not the responsibility if you don’t give them any basis upon which to make that decision
• Informed decisions rely on knowing all of the facts– Example: Anonymous Posters
• Journalistic credibility
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Popular vs. Credible
• Bloggers shouldn’t be held to journalistic standards
• Blogging encourages higher standards in journalism
• Celebrity gossip and personal blogs should be evaluated within their category
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Rebuttal
• They can still be interesting while being factual!
• Need to take blogs with a grain of salt• Perezhilton.com versus CNN.com• “I would rather not see a web overcome with
rumors, half-truths and falsehoods” – “ethical dilemma of blogging”
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Popular vs. Credible
• Audience size doesn’t make it accurate– People’s own voices rather than through
institutional go-betweens
– “If free expression is a natural human craving, so is authority. When the world is as lost as it seems to be right now, you want to know whom you can trust” – William Powers, National Journal
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Rebuttal• Blogs venture where journalists hesitate to
journey
• Blogs can be more interesting but they come with higher risks
• Inaccuracy often “provides a much-needed new layer of checks on the accuracy of the mainstream media.” (Brown, p. 42)
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The lawsuits will come. . .Code of Ethics
• “One day we’ll have a libel suit based on a newspaper’s blog that wasn’t edited. It just hasn’t happened yet. To think there’s less risk just because there’s a blog is not a good strategy” – Blogging Between the Lines
•Blogs are a “developing landscape”
•Who needs a code of ethics? Why? •Ex: John Doe vs. Patrick Cahill
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Rebuttal
• A code of ethics might inhibit the very nature of blogging
• Difficult implementation due to fact that technology is almost constantly changing
• How do you regulate or grasp something with that much information?
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Code of Ethics
• The First Amendment should be applicable to bloggers
• There should be no censorship or code of ethics instated.
– Reno vs. ACLU ruling
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Code of Ethics
• Up to bloggers to hold themselves to a higher standard– Joining the Media Bloggers Association (MBA)
• Readers should investigate credibility before taking that information as fact – Readers should be held responsible
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Rebuttal• “Responsible bloggers should recognize that they are
publishing words publicly, and therefore have certain ethical obligations to their readers, the people they write about and society in general,” – Ethical Dilemma of Blogging– Not everything is going to follow the same standard, but some
transparency is necessary– The need to be responsible for your actions – The need to be responsible for who you stand for
» Exp- blogging for the New York Post – We do acknowledge that it is a challenge!
» Internet is an “endless frontier”
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Where Do You Stand?
Look at the following blogs and decide where you stand.
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Community Blog from Barack Obama’s Website
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Blog Hosted by Pat McCrory’s Campaign
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Finding a Happy Medium…
The debate lies in the controversy defining the difference between
journalism and blogging.