Blogs as Sources for Political News
Blogs as Sources for Political News

Summary/Abstract: Blogs are on a continuously ascending trend. In the beginning, the bloggers took information (news) from the traditional media and commented it in their posts, but now the reversed tendency has appeared: journalists use blogs as news sources. Blogs seem to gain ground in their competition against traditional media regarding information. This article proves that blogs, as a news source for offline journalists remain bounded to their logic. In order for a blog post to become news, it needs to have the characteristics of any news. Furthermore, regular people have little chance of introducing their blog in the news flux, proving that this new communication instrument failed, at least for the moment, in the democratization of the media zone.

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