Bloggers as ‘Pretend Journalists’
July 14th, 2004 Posted in MediaThe verdict is in: Republicans and Democrats are giving bloggers press access to their national conventions this year.
Of course not everyone is happy: “They’re certainly not committed to being objective. They thrive on rumor and innuendo,” says Tom McPhail, journalism professor at the University of Missouri. Bloggers ‘’should be put in a different category, like ‘pretend’ journalists.”
