Are bloggers journalists? Great question. It depends on how you like your news. Inverted pyramid with a slew of sources or a first-person narrative? Updated-by-the-minute or an after-the-fact-analysis? Blog posts usually fall into the latter categories — first-person narratives with a focus on analysis. Like this. Or this. Some might say bloggers have become the new “fourth estate” by taking up the slack for a faltering media, or even calling out traditional journalists for failing to do their job well. Sure, blogging is often more haphazard and less polished than traditional media, but just about any blogger can be published — making the humongous-and-growing blogosphere one of the most democratic forms of journalism ever to exist. (But yes, we know: Veracity can vary. We recommend keeping this handy little checklist in mind whenever you want to know “can I trust this?”)
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wrote just now:The Red Sox signed reliever Joe Nelson to a minor league deal yesterday. Though he’s right-han … more →
wrote just now:A one shot anime by Kenji Saidou’s “Shoka” will debut this March 2010, this anime … more →
wrote just now:Tue, 02 Feb 2010, PressTV A local Hamas leader in the southern Gaza Strip has escaped an attempt on … more →
wrote just now:Tuesday, 02 February 2010 16:06 လာလစ္ ေကဂ်ာ့ (ဧရာဝတီ) အေမရိကန္ သမၼတ အိုဘားမားက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အတြင္းႏ … more →
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wrote 2 minutes ago:CIA mum on Panetta’s trip to Israel. Politico’s Laura Rozen reports that the CIA directo … more →
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wrote 3 minutes ago:Oh. My. Goodness. Brighten up your Tuesday afternoon with these beautiful new pictures from Graham … more →
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wrote 3 minutes ago:A new study finds children with cochlear implants feel about the same concerning their life a … more →
wrote 3 minutes ago:“No prosecutions will take place in Britain in connection with the multibillion-dollar fraud c … more →
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wrote 4 minutes ago:01/02/2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– After he was sentenced nine months actual imprisonment b … more →
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wrote 4 minutes ago:“A teenage gang member who knifed a 16-year-old army cadet through the heart was sentenced to … more →
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wrote 6 minutes ago:Get tweeting folks!! From the NYTimes: ‘Hair’ Has New Way to Spread the Love “Starting Tuesday … more →
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