Blogging

I just read an article on Poynter.org about live blogging. In class, we've had many discussions on whether a journalist should blog on their story or not. This article said that it makes journalists' better storytellers. They do live blogging during an event to keep readers updated, or they will write a story that wasn't particularly important enough for their AP stories. There was one example of a journalist simply writing about a baseball coach going to pick up a hot dog and peanuts at a concession stand, and afterwards posing for photographs. This isn't a story that would be noteworthy for an AP story, but it adds a little extra touch, so he blogged about it. There were a few downsides from story also. One of those is that liveblogging can distract the journalist from the actual event, and maybe even miss something important. I think journalists should be able to blog, as long as it isn't getting in the way of their professional work. Everyone should have the right to do it, but journlists need to know when they should stop.

I'm blogging this week on Chelsea Clintons answer to a school journalist. At Butler University in Indiana, Chelsea was asked if her mothers credibility was affected after the Monica Lewinsky Scandal. Chelsea's remark was:

''Wow, you're the first person actually that's ever asked me that question in the, I don't know maybe, 70 college campuses I've now been to, and I do not think that is any of your business."


It kind of makes me laugh because Butler must be the only college in those 70 colleges that has a good Journalism Department. The journalist did a good job in trying to get the controversial side of politics. I'm sure a lot of people would like to know her real answer to the question.

Chelsea has stated before that people should not vote for Hillary just because of her father, but I think that it absolutely comes with the territory. I think Chelsea should have answered the question that was asked because for one, it would have given her mother a lot of publicity, and for two, people want to know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCAO6bZa31o