Blog a ‘parasitic’ medium

Journalists are beginning to get frustrated by bloggers. Apart from blogging and other online medium taking readers away from newspapers, journalist are also frustrated that bloggers take bits of the stories that originated from the newsrooms and blog it.

An expert below gives you a taste of the frustration expressed by some journalist:
Over the past months, I’ve heard several journalists make the same comment at various industry forums: That blogs are a “parasitic” medium that wouldn’t be able to exist without the reporting done at newspapers.
I hear the frustration behind the comment. You bust your rear to get stories in the paper, then watch bloggers grab traffic talking about your work. All the while your bosses are laying off other reporters, citing circulation declines, as analysts talk about newspapers losing audience to the Web. It’s not hard to understand why many newspaper journalists would come to view blogs as parasites, sucking the life from their newsrooms.
You can read the full story here: http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070301niles/

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