Bloggers At The DNC - Page 2

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Until this week, bloggers enjoyed the luxury--and the right--afforded to all armchair critics. They could take the easy potshot.

But as they took their place alongside other credentialed media, bloggers finally had to put up or shut up. I don't know how many would ever admit this gig was a lot more difficult than it looked from the outside. But with the pressure on to work under the constraints mainstream hacks have to contend with on a daily basis--get the story, get it right in all its complexity, and oh, by the way, get it 10 minutes ago--they were found wanting.

There are numerous questions to be asked:

-Is this guy's opinion also the opinion of most "professional" journalists?

-If so, does the reading public agree?

-If so, why did Bloggers flop?

-And how can they do a better job of covering the RNC?

I personally believe that most people who write for free do so because they haven't yet found anyone willing to pay for their work. So, frankly, we Bloggers are the equivalent of a farm team.

I also believe that the "professional" journalists are feeling substantial heat from the thousands of "amateur" writers who often Monday-morning quarterback their work. They despise their "competition" and will take every opportunity to belittle them, without appearing to do so out of spite.

So, I'm not sure if the Bloggers failed at the DNC, or if the mainstream media is simply hoping to paint such a picture in order to trivialize Blogging for their own benefit. I haven't read enough of the DNC Blogging to come to a conclusion on this.

Does anyone know what is going on here?

Article Author: RJ Elliott

RJ is a graduate student at the University of Central Florida. His passions in life are sports, politics, nature, and women who have piercings they never told their daddy about. He dislikes daytime television, left-wing dictators, and people who talk like Garrison Keillor. …

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