Blogging Business

Last week I was looking into blogs and found an interesting article that I posted on. After letting that information settle, I found that my appetite was still fairly ravenous on the subject. I came across a very interesting interview in Time (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1930315,00.html) with a long time White House Insider, Helen Thomas. This is a woman who has dedicated her life to Journalism, fair and direct journalism, and her view on blogs was strictly unfavorable as they exist today. I think that she was right on the money when she says "we're at a crossroads," as the blogosphere fills up with millions and millions of words and opinions that are not subject to any kind of editorial verification; the tendency for real harm to be done to people continues to increase. I will continue with my former mantra that there needs to be some kind of regulation of blog's and there content. I am not saying that freedom of speech should be hindered, but there should at least be a disclaimer to the fact that the positions expressed are personal and that true diligent research has not been done. If these blogger's do not view themselves as journalists, and therefore feel they don't need to meet journalistic standards, they should at the very least have to come clean with that fact.