After reading Hull’s article blogging
between the lines, I learned that blogging can be informative, fun,
entertaining, therapeutic, and a way to advertise your business as well as making
money. Blogging is also one of the biggest
and most popular forms of social
networking. For many people it is a way to share hobbies, interests, and
moments of their life to people they already known and total strangers.
In the article, Hull dealt with blogging mainly from the media’s
perspective as in print versus the internet. She gave the pros and cons of blogging. She presented both sides in terms of how successful
blogging for a newspaper can be as well as how damaging it can be.
The positive side of blogging can be very
beneficial in terms of bringing new subscribers to a newspaper and giving voice
to those that would otherwise not be heard. However in the
negative perspective, some reporters get so caught up with blogging that they
fail to finish their work. There
have been instances of reporters who have used blogging for their own personal
pulpits. In turn, this type of behavior by some reporters has led to
attracting the attention of negative individuals such as hate groups that might
want to be heard in a national or major news publication. The final lesson
learned from the article on blogging is that Hull went into details about the
legalistic side of blogging. She cited several lawyers throughout her article
as well as giving detailed examples of reporters who have lost their job over
inappropriate blogging comments or topics. Ultimately blogging is mainly
from your perspective of life and whatever you choose to talk about, if you use
someone else’s wording give proper credit. Hull, D. (2006). Blogging between the lines. American Journalism Review, 28(6), 62-67.
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