Ask any journalist what’s the first place they turn to research a story, they’ll tell you it’s the internet. For a few years there has been an absurd (and hyped) rivalry a between bloggers and journalists. It never made sense to me. Bloggers typically excel in owning little niches, while journalists are professional writers. Journalists ideally document life as impartially as possible, while most bloggers stick to a code of ethics, we certainly aren’t impartial.
Relevant Example:
My Target blog was recently referred to in a newspaper article about Target. The the author of the piece sent me a note asking for a link to his article. I gladly complied and gave a biased subjective analysis of the piece. My blog gave the newspaper readers a great outlet to get more in depth, and the article gave my readers an unbiased overview of the the retail market in Orange county. Win-Win.
UPDATE: A friend who read this post mentioned that “biased” (paragraph above) is a poor word choice.
