The world of blogging is related to many things, some may relate it as a place for random chatter and the expression of opinions where as to others it may be a place for the latest information and news of the happenings around the world. The reason behind the success of blogging in passing around news is their ability to instantly update its content in an instant. Unlike the other methods of news and information distribution, blogs have the capability of being instantly updated due to the fact that they do not go through all the levels of administration and filtering such as editors and administrators before being presented to the public eye.
This feature of the blog has allowed news about big events such as the famous terrorist attack at London in the month of July in the year 2005 to be published and spread across the globe in an instant. What happened was after the attack during the period when passengers were being evacuated from a subway car nearby the explosion, a random citizen snapped a couple of photos of the scene using the camera on his cell phone and immediately after an hour upon the upload of those pictures online. People from all across the globe were alerted of the event in London and alerted the citizens of London to take extra precautions in order to protect their safety.
The method upon which the information was spread made it fee very personal for the people who viewed it, due to the fact that it was spread around by a common person like you and me and free from being tempered by the hands of political or any other type of influence. That is one of the wonders of blogging they come across as very personal to the people reading them because they aren't in a formal presentation and is presented on a more personal level. This form information signifies the dawning of a new age of writing, when information and news can be spread by anybody and report on news based on the insight's of a common citizen.
It is a wide spread feeling of mutual views on the topic of blogging in news, as many bloggers and cultural commentators in the field of web log movement express their view that this growing trend of reporting news via blogs is a very good things as it claims a more democratic aspect in the world of news reporting. This method of decentralizing news reports to sources other than the media heads, have allowed more and more people get more in touch personally with the issues at hand and gives them the power to speak their thoughts and opinions. Amidst that, there are also forces which do not agree to the spread of news in such a free manner. This is because they argue that this method of news spreading uses information from the blogger himself without any real validated proof to justify the news.
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