BLOGGERS BELITTLED (Why Tweet When You Can Blog)

Jaime E. Masagca

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 Souvenir items. Beautiful like blogs, but 
it is up to the buyer to select.

The Palace accreditation of bloggers has again disturbed the dying and majority-biased mainstream media, classifying them as favoring only the incoming president. Baseless! With or without bloggers or mainstream media the Palace has its own media outfit. The recognition to my mind is just to recognize, identify, organize without control or censorship, and not to create a "troll army".

Why are the routinary media scared of bloggers? Because the latter is the genuine fact-checkers by providing all sides or even an unconventional view, to align biases and the half-truths?

 

Undeniable there are "made-up bloggers", those that write irrelevantly, but they are usually met with reproaches even beyond their expectations.  

 

A few years ago, I read of professional journalists and writers in a forum have belittled bloggers, the latter being marked as "untrained" unlike those who are graduates of journalism courses.

 

The real difference between the first kind and bloggers is that the former has merely acquired the skills and eventually writes for a living, for money which makes them susceptible to succumb to "envelop-mental journalism", which a taxi driver describes as the most corrupt sector for hiding truths to obstruct justice. 

 

A journalist as we commonly know them can be of a different kind by proficiency or job assignment. they can be a news writer, feature writer, columnist, etc.  But a blogger can be all rolled into one depending on the mood, need, or available material. They have that intrinsic talent in playing with words to create a beautiful tapestry of ideas, which no school can perhaps teach, as no institution can mold a soul nor coach a heart to express ideas in a different and even in an unorthodox way.

 

Bloggers, my dear friends, are the best breed, for they write independently on their own, sans the pressure of editors and publishers. More importantly, they write with the language of the heart, the clarity, and the calmness of the soul, and not by the pen that is devoid of life.

 

 

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