Bloggers are born not made

I'm starting to believe that bloggers are born, not made.

I hate to ruin the glamour and romance of this site that tons of people look at daily to see what I'm into and not into, but blogging is not in my nature. Some people believe that blogging is our future. Well I believe "The Children Are Our Future," just kidding, that was lame.

I sat in on a meeting about "continuous news" at the newspaper where I intern. The other editors on the copy desk asked me to go to the meeting because they didn't want to, and I'm glad they did because it was a total eye opener.

I don't think that ameteur bloggers are our future, and I refuse to believe that the future is right now in the news industry.

Writing for the Web is a good class, and the skills that we have learned taking this course are super important in the Journalism and PR industries. But the legacy portions of our industry are catching up, quickly. In the meeting, we learned about all of the research that went onto the creation of TMZ.com.

And guess what?

That site is run by real journalists, though trashy and somewhat unethical, and they have one of the most heavily hit websites on the net.

I don't think that I need to blog on my own to be successful or to know what's going on. But in the near future my boss may ask me to write on a blog. I look forward to it because at least then I won't have to search through random crap and find something to take up space to get a good grade.

Here's the idea that mass media is catching up on and now one talks about, continuous news. The story never ends, the story is always developing, like our blogs. Does that make any sense? Basically newspapers are going to be developing news sites like the gossip site TMZ because it works! And then up sell ads to their legacy print counter parts. And the most successful news sites are still the traditional heavy hitters like The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. The Las Vegas Sun was also mentioned as a great news website.

P.S. the art I chose for this is called "Birth" by Frida Kahlo. Guess who owns the original? Madonna! Ha, got you, bitches.

P.P.S. don't google the word "birth" and look for images without a bucket. One word: abortion. Yikes.