News Websites Make For Bad Blogs

All of this hype with blogging is starting to spread to most of the major media outlets. Is this good or bad? Well, only time will tell. Personally, I don’t think this is such a great idea.

I realize that social media is the “wave of the future”, but the whole basis for most established traditional media outlets is their integrity and quality. When major media outlets such as my local media outlet, The Indianapolis Star, try to become “social” then it really doesn’t work out as well as you would expect.

Go to IndyStar.com and check out any article, like this one, and read some of the comments that have been left regarding the article. This is just downright wrong, and I think some of these people need to be educated before posting. Sites like IndyStar.com need to disable comments or start heavily moderating them. It’s quite obvious they just want to get people involved like bloggers do, but they must realize they cater to a completely different audience. They cater to the general public while blogs and bloggers cater to more tech savvy users that are capable of using search, like Google, to find what they are looking for.

There is a lot of great things that the Internet and bloggers have which major news companies don’t. But if major outlets are going to start mimicking - Please do NOT allow for commenting. It’s just going to be a flame war between hundreds of thousands of un-educated people with opinions.