US: Most bloggers don't consider themselves journalists
Posted by John Burke on July 20, 2006 at 9:21 AM
We've been hoping for some time that the "bloggers vs. journalists" debate would just go away. We finally may have reached that point. A report done by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 66% of people maintaining blogs don't label their acts as journalism. The other 34% considered their blogging as journalism because they engage in journalistic functions like fact-checking and linking to sources.
At the same time, more than 40% said they never quote sources and 61% said they never ask for permission to reproduce copyrighted material.
As so far as transparency goes, 55% of the bloggers surveyed said they use pseudonyms whereas 9 out of 10 welcomed comments from readers.
37%, said that they use their blog for recording personal experiences, 11% for politics, 7% entertainment, 6% sports and 5% news.
Source: Reuters
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