Man, it is easy being a sports journalist these days. All one needs is a computer, some free time and semi knowledge on a particular sport or a topic. Wait, that is not sports journalism - it is blogging. How can one differentiate between the two anymore? Well, the two are getting closer everyday to becoming one and the same as more and more bloggers invade the Internet.
Blogging has become such a "trend" nowadays that people of all ages have become addicted to it. Some people blog to show their undying passion for a particular sports team, while others are hoping to make some money off of it. Whatever the case may be for blogging, people see either the good or the bad side of it.
Older journalists still seem hesitant on the issue of blogging and see it as a threat to the field of journalism. Such individuals question the validity of the stories posted in countless blogs and wonder how much reporting goes into them. These are certainly valid questions considering how much useless garbage is out there on the net. On the flip side there are those, however, who put in the work just like an everyday journalist. They worry about and focus on the main things such as spelling, accuracy, grammar and do so because they want to be taken seriously as working professionals. In some cases (i.e. Will Leitch - founder of Deadspin) it has turned into a full-time job at a real newspaper.
In my opinion blogging has turned out to be a good thing for our society but not great for the field of journalism. There are fewer secrets out there due to immediacy of blogging, but there is also lots of wasteful material that is of no use to anyone.
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/02/12/blogging-can-make-you-money-even-if-your-blog-doesnt/
http://deadspin.com/
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