Blogging- its controversial, misused, misunderstood and everywhere.
Personally, I don’t see what’s wrong with blogging as long as readers know the difference in what is right and wrong. And that can only be done by doing your own research! If you depend on sources everywhere, your news will never be accurate.
During school and work our colleagues constantly bring up current events and their opinions on news topics. We, as peers, listen and often reciprocate our feedback.
To use others’ judgement as a reliable source is amateur; and for people to take second hand sources too seriously, are obviously not fully aware of their surroundings.
It is like Tabloid magazines/papers. The world thrives on controversy. Without it, viewers would lose interest. Blogging keeps the news world interesting, 40 years ago the people blindly believed anything that was printed in papers. Now, our more educated society has formed their own opinions. And what is wrong with that?
Blogging should not be taken as a reliable source. But should be looked at as an opinion worth considering. And if one’s feelings are so against the blog- counter argue it! So, for the sake of this never-ending argument, “Is blogging okay?”, I say yes.
You make some very general points. Adding some data/stats from study would have helped tremendously.
Good headline!