are blogger journalists?

I personally do not agree that bloggers are journalists. Journalist is a career and who have received professional education and training, have responsibilities, and have certain skills. Journalists need to be very updated with latest news on what happening around the world and they work towards reporting it. A journalist writes the reports according to the real facts and they do research on it. Besides that, a journalist need to have a good english,therefore they need to go through a training before becoming a journalist.

In the other hand, bloggers are different in another way. Plenty of bloggers, even like me, just use this medium to write what we think and feel. A blogger just writes their opinion. Everyone can be a blogger now by just registering themselves in the websites. There are alot of websites of blogging nowadays, like the one we are using right now, blogspot.com, xanga.com,blogosphere,blogdrive.com and etc.

Bloggers do not need to have good english,in fact, they can write in any languages they feel comfortable with. They even blog with combinations of languages and they can even write it in "rojak" language. Anything,as long as they feel comfortable with it.

this was taken from teycindy.com. A famous blogger from malaysia. She uses the word "chickened" and "lah" in the blog whereas, a journalist need to write it in a formal and proper language.

At the beginning,most of the bloggers use blogs to express their thoughts and feelings. But time goes by, blogger started to share about their interest in their blog, promoting their things,sharing what they got and etc. Bloggers have more freedom than journalists.

This is another famous blogger, cheeserland.com from malaysia too. She blogs about her daily life, about her dogs ( she called herself as mom for their dogs) and she is very good for her make up skills. She does alot of tutorial in make up. She always use the word "Fake One" in her blog.

Moreover, bloggers can post any pictures that they like in their blog unlike a journalist. They can only post pictures that are being approved. Bloggers can post any pictures, for advertisement,trips,idols or etc.

This guy above is the most famous blogger in Malaysia, kennysia.com. Bloggers can post funny picture like what he did in the picture above into their blog.

Without these millions of bloggers, we’d be missing some interesting things. Because we can take these tools to use for ourselves, we have a powerful opportunity to try new things. Because of all this information, we have the ability to learn more, share faster, and discover new opportunities.