So who the hell you think you are? You are just a blogger!

I read one of the link that were given and i find it rather interesting. So here's what the whole buzz is all about..
Three bloggers are being filed a lawsuit from Apple because they have leaked out information about a certain product called " Asteroid". They felt that these bloggers weren't given any right to do so because they weren't journalist or in my opinion they thought those bloggers weren't legal..

But on the other hand I feel like they were just furious about want those bloggers have done. I mean leaking out information about your future product means giving an advantage to your competitors to do something about it like coming out with a better and greater product making yours not so special anymore. Not only that if what those bloggers have said were rumors what go through all the hustle to bring this issue to court. Or why bother about some rumours by some bloggers that aren't true..Is the world going to believe them? After all Apple can just release a statement to the press that those rumours are not true...

So back to the question of the week..
Are Bloggers Journalists?

Well it DEPENDS..
If you are blogging about your own life and how it has been, its basically just an online dairy for you and your readers/followers to read.

However if you are blogging about world events or event happening around your neighbourhood or even just about little significance about special moments happening around you like some school event or your parents anniversary...in my opinion you are a journalist(legal or not) in your very own right.

Going back to the buss above.. being filed a lawsuit, I guess those bloggers have brought it upon themselves after all who were they in any rights to publish a blog post about something a company is going to bring to the market? It definitely feels like violation to privacy to me.

Ok, so in my own opinion again i think that the second type of bloggers i have mentioned are journalist in their own way is because they are 'reporting an event' to inform their readers. Not just any event but event that is actually not all about them. Some 'report useful information that are very helpful for us. For example politics and world events, the government and the opposition always tells us what they want use to hear and to manipulate us. And it is always very useful to hear from everyday people like and to know what is their take on the issue after all isn't it what the politicians want which is "what's best for people"?

However it is it of the utmost importance that we know who are are reading from as many people could use their blogs to publish false information and create chaos and confusion.
So i think as much as it will still happen i believe that people should abuse the media and be grateful that we are able to voice out our opinions quite freely and not like some other nations that will band any form of media to prevent any opinions to be voiced out.

Galen