Methods of journalism are evolving and beginning to reflect the potential of the Internet. The writer Scott Karp enthusiastically talks about journalism adapting to incorporate the use of links to blogs as a useful function of reporting. In his article he talks about this method replacing quotes and I think that it works. Bloggers being, “quoted” essentially by having links to their sites is an interesting idea because it brings the blogger and the “real journalist” closer together. This meshing of blogs and articles can bring attention to a blogger’s ideas by linking to them from the validating words of a professional writer.
He also mentions the 15 billion dollar net value of a website that does nothing but, “send people away” by links. He’s referring to Google.
An LA Times article by Jay Rosen discusses the critique of another man’s critique on blogging. At the end of his article he said no one owns the practice of reporting or assigns the right to do it. It’s a democratic thing to tell others what’s going on. Some people will not be deterred from doing that. He adds that most of them, bloggers, don’t care what you call them but that they do care if their story stands up. In Rosen’s article a professor’s critique of blogging is shown to be based on the assumption that blogs just aren’t taken seriously, but if bloggers lack journalistic titles or simply aren’t printed in a mainstream publication, then linking to blog sites is an interesting way to shed light on what those writers have to say and a progressive way to support an article.
