Are Bloggers Journalist??

Well, I can say that a big portion of people in the community are wondering about this issue which is 'Are Bloggers Can be Consider as a Journalist'?? Actually bloggers are people who always writes a blog or weblog and comments other people's blog. While journalists are people who collects and disseminates information about up to date events,people, trends and issues. Therefore, his/her work is acknowledged as journalism. Journalist is a career and who have received professional education and training, have responsibilities, and have certain skills

One example of journalist are reporters. Their responsibilities are creating reports aas a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines and the internet. Besides reporters, columnist is also known as one of the journalist who writes pieces that appear regularly in newspapers or magazines. Some journalist adhere to the to the standards and norms expressed in the Society of Professional Journalist ethical code. Therefore most of practicing journalist are concern about about the issue of maintaining credibility.



On the other hand, bloggers plays a similar role compare to journalist. Usually bloggers will post about what they think or feels about a something. Then anyone can be a blogger by just registering their names at the websites. Bloggers do not need to be well educated such as have good language but they have the freedom to write whatever that suits them. They can even post blogs in multiple languages until they feel comfortable with it. Currently there are many websites that can be used by bloggers to post their articles.



So are bloggers considered as journalist?? Actually I feel that bloggers have the same characteristics with journalist but they are not in the same field. Bloggers are actually people who like to express their feelings, thought or maybe even telling people about something new. They don't even care about whether is it true or not or maybe it's just a myth. Usually bloggers intention is to let other people know what he/she is thinking or planning to do. They don;t even care if the post they blog will hurt other people feelings or maybe will create a chaos. This is because there are many useless people who like to act as 'anonymous' or 'unknown' and post bad
comments or critics about their post and makes the bloggers wondering who is he/she. Therefore for the long run, it creates a bad impression to other people on that specific post until government can't do anything about it. They can just watch the problem happens. Besides that, journalist differs with bloggers. They are assigned to create blogs or articles about what is happening around us and all of it totally relates to common sense. Even most of the article is a true by the sense it really happens in the real world. Therefore, most of the comments from outsiders are good and there a less majority of bad comments. On the other hand, people who like to be 'spoilers' or 'anonymous' to damage people's comments or blogs about something they don't like. Therefore, the government or relevant authorities should take deep action on this matter. If not it will be a disaster for the bloggers and maybe will effect the journalist in the future because they are in the same field. For example, both of their working field are the same that is writing articles or blogs that is related to the surroundings. Just that the articles they post are slightly different.

Besides that, journalist is career that receive professional training in education and communication skills so do professional bloggers. Actually they do have careers that makes them professional bloggers. Not like newbie bloggers who like to post blogs that is not related to their life at all because from what I saw in most blogs, they like to give bad comments about someone they don't like or hate then it will create a mass chaos and misunderstanding. This shows that bloggers are not well educated in moral values and language where they can use not proper language in writing their blogs. It will effects their future when they start communicating with other people in the outside world. I suggest that journalist should be an example to all bloggers because journalist have limitation in such as bound to the rules or can't post sensitive issues that will hurt others feelings.

In conclusion, not everyone will think that bloggers are not journalist. The problem is how each
different individual look into this matter. Maybe some will think bloggers have more freedom in creating blogs and journalists not or maybe is another way round. Furthermore regarding the language problem and moral value, if government or related authorities doesn't take serious action about this, in the long run will affect the young ones in the future because they are the future leaders in the community. If they are not well mannered from small, then sooner the whole community will be full of not professional peoples and criminals.