Blog Crazy–Politico is full of Bloggers!!!

After following Politico.com for three weeks, I’m starting to really appreciate their Blogs. They have found a way to legitimize them; make them stand out from the rest.

Though some of posts can be pretty funny. Michael Calderone

When we think of blogs we think about what Mike Huckabee said about the ‘death of journalism.’ We usually associate bloggers with laziness and plagiarism. But like I have said before!!!, there are great bloggers out there, Politico happens to have a lot of them.

On the left side of their homepage there is the Politico blog roll displaying the bloggers and the specific topics they cover.

Here’s a picture of the blog roll:

Most of their blog posts are like mini-news stories. The stories are short, the information is attributed to its source and straight to the point. Some of the blog stories are even mixed into the headlines on the homepage. It’s like they are slowly trying to convert their stories into a blog format.

It’s nice to see a news site taking full advantage of what blogs are capable of. It’s a perfect example of how blogs can deliver “real” news.

Keep it up Politico!!! And take that Huckabee!!!

…did I just discredit my own blog???

Huckabee–Journalism is dead

In an article on Politico.com,  former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was quoted from his blog saying, “I’m sad to report today a death of a good friend to all of us…..Journalism.”

“The once esteemed 4th estate of our nation and the protector of our freedoms and a watchdog of our rights has passed away after a long struggle with a crippling and debilitating disease of acute dishonesty aggravated by advanced laziness and the loss of brain function.”

He couldn’t be further from the truth! Journalism is not dead at all!

It’s just becoming harder to define what journalism is in a time where “everyone is a journalist.”

So when I read the Huckabee quote at the end of the Politico article, I realized he was confusing bloggers with journalists:

“Journalism had grown increasingly dependent on spin-doctor spoon feeding and the circular and insular quoting of other journalists instead of attempting to locate and quote actual first person sources.”

That sounds more like inexperienced bloggers than professional journalists–they aren’t idiots like he says they are.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, there are many great bloggers out there, who fact-check and write coherently. And then there are the inexperienced bloggers like me, who did exactly what he said is wrong with journalism in THIS blog post…but I’ll get this blogging thing down soon enough…

Here’s the original article from politico…he’s a jackass

Mike Huckabee: Journalism is dead