Comments on: Are Traditional Magazines Unbiased? http://www.blogworldexpo.com/blog/2008/05/15/are-traditional-magazines-unbiased/ Blogosphere's Biggest Blogging Conference Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:49:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Rick http://www.blogworldexpo.com/blog/2008/05/15/are-traditional-magazines-unbiased/#comment-17985 Rick Fri, 16 May 2008 18:59:31 +0000 http://www.blogworldexpo.com/blog/2008/05/15/are-traditional-magazines-unbiased/#comment-17985 hehe thanks Ben 8). hehe thanks Ben 8).

]]> By: Ben http://www.blogworldexpo.com/blog/2008/05/15/are-traditional-magazines-unbiased/#comment-17983 Ben Fri, 16 May 2008 06:44:16 +0000 http://www.blogworldexpo.com/blog/2008/05/15/are-traditional-magazines-unbiased/#comment-17983 Interesting article and thought provoking - thanks. Incidentally the word Tennents is one of the most frequently used words in Scotland - it's the brand name of the best beer in Scotland. So you're forgiven for using it :) Ben (Ozscot) Interesting article and thought provoking - thanks.

Incidentally the word Tennents is one of the most frequently used words in Scotland - it’s the brand name of the best beer in Scotland. So you’re forgiven for using it :)

Ben (Ozscot)

]]> By: Rick http://www.blogworldexpo.com/blog/2008/05/15/are-traditional-magazines-unbiased/#comment-17982 Rick Fri, 16 May 2008 04:48:46 +0000 http://www.blogworldexpo.com/blog/2008/05/15/are-traditional-magazines-unbiased/#comment-17982 Duly noted and fixed 8). No offense taken Raj. I am no journalist and a terribly poor speller but that was exceptionally bad. Not to get too far off topic here, I do read quite a few blogs by professional journalists and surprisingly they make quite a few spelling and grammatical errors. In fact I have noticed the same thing in newspapers over the last few years. Honestly while I do have a high regard for individual writers and reporters I don't for the "profession" in general in fact I liken it much more to a trade skill than a profession like that of a physician or an attorney. Maybe you are right spelling and grammar are the only real differences between blogs and traditional media. Maybe thats why traditional media is in such decline. Duly noted and fixed 8). No offense taken Raj. I am no journalist and a terribly poor speller but that was exceptionally bad. Not to get too far off topic here, I do read quite a few blogs by professional journalists and surprisingly they make quite a few spelling and grammatical errors. In fact I have noticed the same thing in newspapers over the last few years.

Honestly while I do have a high regard for individual writers and reporters I don’t for the “profession” in general in fact I liken it much more to a trade skill than a profession like that of a physician or an attorney.

Maybe you are right spelling and grammar are the only real differences between blogs and traditional media. Maybe thats why traditional media is in such decline.

]]> By: raj http://www.blogworldexpo.com/blog/2008/05/15/are-traditional-magazines-unbiased/#comment-17981 raj Fri, 16 May 2008 02:51:24 +0000 http://www.blogworldexpo.com/blog/2008/05/15/are-traditional-magazines-unbiased/#comment-17981 Fascinating article. I've asked myself this sort of thing a fair bit. But without meaning to pick on you, let me point something out, simply because the opportunity is there. It's "tenets of journalism" not "tennents of journalism". There's no word "tennents" in the English language. A journalist very likely would have caught that typo, and a blogger less likely to have. Why? Because most people that call themselves journalists have an education in journalism and sometimes literature, and thus tend to have a relatively large vocabularly. Thus while they should still spellcheck, journalists often don't need to - their mental spellchecker would have caught it. That's not to say there aren't bloggers who don't have large vocabularies and who might not have become journalists. (That was once one of my dreams, long ago.) But the average person who makes their living as a pro blogger (part- or full-time) and is not also a journalist probably gets paid a lot less per word, on average, than a journalist. So they don't often have time to spellcheck. Yet, if we bloggers are to prove we're worth reading, shouldn't we take more care with grammar and vocabularly? Fascinating article. I’ve asked myself this sort of thing a fair bit. But without meaning to pick on you, let me point something out, simply because the opportunity is there.

It’s “tenets of journalism” not “tennents of journalism”. There’s no word “tennents” in the English language. A journalist very likely would have caught that typo, and a blogger less likely to have. Why? Because most people that call themselves journalists have an education in journalism and sometimes literature, and thus tend to have a relatively large vocabularly. Thus while they should still spellcheck, journalists often don’t need to - their mental spellchecker would have caught it.

That’s not to say there aren’t bloggers who don’t have large vocabularies and who might not have become journalists. (That was once one of my dreams, long ago.) But the average person who makes their living as a pro blogger (part- or full-time) and is not also a journalist probably gets paid a lot less per word, on average, than a journalist. So they don’t often have time to spellcheck.

Yet, if we bloggers are to prove we’re worth reading, shouldn’t we take more care with grammar and vocabularly?

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