“For many Americans seeking news during important events, blogs are just about the last place they look, relying instead on traditional outlets, a survey says.
Fifty percent said that they turn to traditional media like television, radio and newspapers as their primary source for information during major events such as hurricanes over “emerging media,” according to a survey of 333 business professionals and 1,167 consumers between the ages of 25 and 64. The survey was sponsored by LexisNexis.” via News.com
I’m not suprised one bit. Digg isn’t a blog, but it cites blogs very often, and I don’t know if you have noticed, but they frequently put disclaimers on certain posts as possibly inaccurate. While their intentions are good, and they should do this, they basically put a stamp of “untrusted” on information associated with Digg.
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It’s good news that people are not trusting blogs for major news. Bloggers are, by and large, untrained in newsgathering (some might say some TV and newspaper journalists aren’t either, but that’s another issue).
Blogs are, at heart, personal journals. They’re inevitably derivative of news coming off the wire services, and only rarely do blogs “break” news. Usually when they do, it is more along the lines of leaked, gossipy information.
As we know, gossip always *seems* so interesting, and often winds up being an exaggeration or outright lie.
Why believe the gosspers or look for armchair commentary, when you can read a story by a trained reporter on the scene…
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