Blogs and Journalism under Snow Moon

“History is a distillation of rumor.” Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution

In The Weblog: An Extremely Democratic Form in Journalism,
Jay Rosen said weblogs are a form of online journalism – that shares a common purpose: “to prevent events from disappearing without reflection, narration, and the means to look back.”
“A weblog can “work journalistically – it can be sustainable, enjoyable, meaningful, valuable, worth doing, and worth it to other people….,” he stated he does not see weblogs as a “real threat to the established media.” He does believe that the genre is just as effective in its ability to influence its readers as traditional “opinion journalism.”

Not a threat to traditional media
The reason it is not a viable competitor for consumers of traditional mass media lies in its inability to reach the same audience numbers. In addition, there are more competing weblogs than traditional media outlets.
Granted, a weblog writer can adopt the same professional standards and ethics as those accepted by traditional journalists. The key word is “can” rather than “must.” It is an option for a weblog writer, which clouds the definition of journalism. As Thomas Carlyle noted, history or as Rosen claims attempt “to prevent” events from disappearing from the archival artifact function of journalism. Media consumers generally take it for granted that professional journalists attempt to be objective and accurate in recording the elements of various news events. Even columnists react to specific factual events in their attempt to use their work to influence readers. It has also been said that history is written by the victors of the latest conquest, socio-cultural-economic-political, etc. Both of these observations, when added to human nature, emphasize the impossibility of representing an event with 100-percent accuracy. First, the actual physiological and intellectual processes involved in generating a journalistic product must be considered. To do that, basic interpersonal communication theory provides a sound, structural touchstone to begin to realistically understand the perceptual