Bad blogs...

I went to a journalism conference last week that featured a stuffy key note speaker. He said blogs are bad for journalism.

Blogs are bad because they often don't contain accurate facts and are full of biases. Blogs are not objective, he said.

Blogs are usually poorly written and are for wannabe writers, he continued.

The uninformed masses will read blogs at face value and take what is written as fact.

(Journalists are taught that our general audience has about a Grade 5 reading level. I suppose our general audience also has no critical thinking skills and therefore has difficulty distinguishing fact from opinion).

Me, I think blogs are great. They encourage global dialogue and help give a voice to those who are perhaps voiceless. Blogs promote freedom of speech.

So for all you bloggers out there: "Keep on blogging in the free world!!"