Do you feel that journalism ethics are not adhered to by bloggers?

i dont think so.
blogs are a wonderful way to express personal thoughts and tell stories whereas journalism is supposed to be a medium serving the purpose of ‘objective’ coverage.

journalism should be the mirror of society and operates on a higher institutional basis, whereas blog could be compared with personal megaphones…

just my personal appraisal.

It depends on the blog. Some blogs I follow probably have higher journalistic standards than much of the mainstream media whose standards are becoming increasingly suspect. I don’t think in general that most bloggers (70 million at last report) feel bound by any ethical principals or strive to be a professional journalist but that isn’t the purpose of most bloggers.

I’m not sure that journalism is adhering to journalistic standards any more. Blogs that strive to be news blogs have not always even stated having journalistic standards as a goal. Some have mocked them. As they strive for legitimacy, however, they will have to adopt principles of objectivity and careful sourcing.

Television “journalism” seems to be increasingly blurring the lines between news and commentary. Witness brouhahas on MSNBC and Fox News recently in which network personnel in “talk” formats said shocking things.

As for newspapers, they are being run by financial men. They are searching desperately for a way to make money online with their professional content gatherers since their traditional readership is falling. The result is not a lot of investigative (controversial) journalism.

If you got back to the history of journalism, the very earliest days of newspapering, the news was very suspect then, and there were no standards. I think as the Web matures as a medium, standards will develop for news blogs.

Until then, it is up to discerning readers to take things in with a critical and skeptical eye.

Journalists have ethics?

true that, @glial.

For me, the journalistic coverage of Apple technologies is a microcosm of what’s wrong with journalism in general today. Every day, salaried and respected journalists report falsehoods, misstatements, outright lies even about Apple and its technologies. Stuff that is trivially and easily verified with the most rudimentary of fact-checking exercises.

If supposed journalists can’t even get black & white issues correct, like how much iTunes charges for DRM-free music, then how can we trust the journalistic reporting that comes out on issues for which there is legitimate debate between reasonable peoples.

It’s all about grabbing page-views, generating hype, and the news itself making the news.

That said, personal blogs at least have the inherent honesty of being personal viewpoints. It’s built-in that you’re to question it. Seek alternate viewpoints. Learn more for yourself. To me, that’s more worthy of attention that the unassailable ramparts upon which many modern journalists seem to place themselves.

behind every message is a intention. variety is the only choice for readers – no matter about what medium we are talking about…

happy paranoia!

Well…bloggers are journalists of a sort. I think there are things one should not post. It would be awfully easy to throw ethics out the window on a personal web blog…and we know that most people will always take the easy route….right?

Bloggers don’t abide by the AP Style book. Blogging is so new still. Mind you I’m talking about the two as separate entities. I know plenty journalists who blog, and their blogs seem to be much more relaxed than their stories written for newspaper and tv media. Blogs are personal. I think blogs will ultimately end columnists jobs because essential all a columnists does is write purely from their perspective and they don’t really need to much research. Of course, they wouldn’t write out any bologna either, which some bloggers do.