Making Online News Like Offline News
MAKING Online News is a book about online news. And bloggers are behaving like hacks. Writes Paul at OJ:
I’ve recently been reading ‘Making Online News‘ a book of ethnographic studies of online news production. Tucked towards the back of the book is a chapter called The Routines of Blogging by Wilson Lowrey and John Latta. It is one of the few studies I’ve read to look not at journalists, but at the work practices of bloggers - specifically, political bloggers.
And their findings support what I’ve increasingly suspected: “the more relevant bloggers become in terms of audience and influence, the more their production routines resemble those of professional journalists.”
Copy the tried and tested…
August 9th, 2008 at 3:20 am
I can think of a fair few politically-inclined Anorakers who have influenced my thoughts and writing in the past few months!!!
I have been influenced so much I don’t know my own mind anymore!
I have become shrewish and over-cautious. Reticent and withdrawn as well! Is the World really this conspiratorial??? The bloggers must be right!
So compelled am I by political bloggers that I won’t leave the house unless I have read online blogs first thing in the morning!- Oh! And my Horoscope. And I never buy a newspaper!
I save a fortune on newspapers now.
I think that these bloggers - whoever they are - quite literally have the whole fucking World at their fingertips! And good on them!
I am just wondering if I should sack going to the Lords and become a political blogger instead. Or do both.
I could do politics on my lap-top - in my house-coat whilst sat in the garden without make-up.
I am just off to start becoming relevant and here and now - and get me some influencing done - right now! Bzzzzz! Bzzzzzz!