Are newspaper blogs “real” blogs?
The Press Gazette in the UK had a recent post about the clutch of newspapers adding blogs to their online repertoire, and the debate over whether all of these blogs are really necessary or not, or whether newspapers are just trying desperately to prove that they are “with it.” The post in turn links to the blog of Andrew Grant-Adamson, who says: “Some of the offerings are very good but too many seem like ways of presenting traditional content in a “look we understand the digital age” way, while others are dumping grounds for copy that would never get into the paper.” As the Press Gazette notes, critics say most newspapers “have simply used blogs to publish short, second-rate columns in reverse-chronological order, mimicking the form but not the spirit of the genre.” And very few are making good use of the comments section of their blogs to get a real dialogue going with readers.
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(On Oct 30th, 2006 at 5:24 am)
[…] Mathew Ingram of the Globe and Mail, writing on his personal site, observed that few newspapers are making use of the opportunity blogs provide for writers and their readers to enter a real dialogue. I know the comments on the Globe site require quite a bit of moderation from their Web team, but I don't know to what extent that's true for their blogs. […]