Hull's the good, the bad, and overall effects of social networking through Blogging

  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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