Blogging for Democracy

Innovation is history changing, an industry adapter and regulator. From a journalistic standpoint innovation is the struggle to reach the people at a marketing level and an active one. Innovation journalism and innovation involved with journalism both share a struggle with time. The importance of journalist in a democracy is to help get the unbiased word out. Innovation can help and hinder this goal. The importance of the message seems only to be heard though credibility.

The article said without journalism we would not have democracy. Democracy is a broad ideology and is in need of someone to keep up with the everyday changes. Journalists are considered the watchdogs of society because they are hopefully keeping the masses aware of the complexities and importance of their so-called democracy. Innovation helps broaden the spectrum of awareness with things like the Internet and Blogging. “Trying to engage audiences in conversation should be a primary goal for news organizations, the article said. With the help of communication channels like blogging and open range of communication is was democracy is all about. This open range of communication might also cloud the true importance of a message.

Innovation changes a society and even forces democracy to adapt to this change. This need to find a closer relationship and understanding between a consumer and a Journalist is best answered in blogging.

“Concepts like blogging and podcasting are presenting new ways of distributing journalism instantly and letting readers interact with the journalistic product,” the article said. “The blog is a publishing innovation, a digital newswire that, due to the proliferation of the Internet, low production and distribution costs, ease of use and really simple syndication (RSS), creates a new and powerful push-pull publishing concept.”

In other words the blog takes away the separation for the professional journalist and the amateur one. Blog not only gives a journalist the opportunity to elaborate on a current news story but it also give the reader a chance to elaborate and critique for all the world to see. The power of the professional is put in the hands of the armature. Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford said in the article the blogs are the first innovation to help engage people to act.

From a professional journalist point of view blogs are “goldmines,” The article said. “The blogosphere is a huge source to tap…” Not only can blogs help journalist get closer to there reader but can be an inside search engine for new ideas. The article said blogs also could be seen as the snakes in this overwhelming new media full of “ranting and personal opinions.” “Blog responsibly, and you’ll build a reputation for being a trusted news source. Don’t and you won’t have a reputation to worry about, article said. This is the great thing about journalism people in a democracy have the ability to weed out the credible sources from the non. If they are unable to someone will blog about it.

Journalist should blog because they are a credible source and need to make sure the masses have access to valuable information to keep the information trustworthy. Blogs keep a never-ending open wave of communication. This mass communication has no class borders. Blogs is an open unedited waive of communication, the fundaments of democracy. With freedom such as in a democracy and journalism, credibility will always stand out. Even in a time of information overload.

-Adam Meyn