Marketingservicestalk blog recently published some statistics on how bloggers perceive themselves with respect to the news media. According to a report from a legal services organization called DLA Piper, "Only 5 per cent of internet users are clear on their legal rights and responsibilities when posting comment online." Their research also showed that, while 42 per cent of internet users believe that bloggers should be held to the same standards as journalists, only 27 per cent of actual bloggers agreed.
I'm not particularly hung up on whether or not bloggers are journalists - logging into their free account a few times a week in order to commit random acts of journalism. Certainly, very few of them are good journalists. And virtually none of them are engaged in anything remotely resembling real, investigative reporting - something that is slowing going the way of the dodo in today's media markets.
I do truly applaud the men and women on the ground with real jobs, earning real salaries, with real professional standards, who keep me informed about what's actually going on in the world. However, I am not one of them. We at jamesloganmd.com are not journalists. We do not report news, nor do we hold ourselves to any standards whatsoever. Anything you read here has equal chances of being either real or fictional, truth or falsehood, fact or opinion. The author of what you read here may be James Logan, M.D., or it may be someone else. Or it may be no one at all! We cannot verify any facts or claims made or not made herein; neither can we verify the existence of jamesloganmd.com nor its readers.
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