Only 5% Of Bloggers Are Journalists

ObsessiveMathsFreak writes "A recent study has concluded that only 5% of bloggers have news as their primary topic. The study was conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, and found that 37 percent of the surveyed blogs were reporting on their personal life, 11 percent on political matters, 7 percent on entertainment, and 6 percent on sports. There's also plenty of extra data in the report itself. From the article: 'About 34 percent see their blogging as a form of journalism; 65 percent disagreed. Just over a third of the bloggers said they often conduct journalistically appropriate tasks such as verifying facts and linking to source material.'"

Slashblog.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Just over a third of the bloggers said they often conduct journalistically appropriate tasks such as verifying facts and linking to source material.'"

Welcome to slashdot.

Most bloggers are

[Anonymous Coward]

blogging about blogosphere, repeating what other bloggers are blogging. It's a self-sustained feedback loop. I'm pretty sure it's also major energy source in the future.

Is this the most useless poll ever?

[caluml]

Is this the most useless poll ever? Or, by asking this question, have I just beaten it?

Re:Slashblog.

[aichpvee]

Which is about the same percentage of "journalists" who still do that.

Re:news commentary versus journalism

[grcumb]

"Bill Oreilly is not a "journalist"; he's a cross between a commentator and a talk show host."

The word you're looking for is propagandist. 8^)

Nice!

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

• 5% of bloggers have news as their primary topic
• 37 percent of the surveyed blogs were reporting on their personal life
• 11 percent on political matters
• 7 percent on entertainment
• 6 percent on sport

And the remaining 34% could not be categorized as researchers fell asleep reading those pages.

it's a dirty job, but...

[amrust]

Why would us bloggers want to be bothered with researching topics, and doing meaningful, in-depth news on various topics, when there's so much reader demand for things like:

1. Why we hate work so much.
2. Who we like and don't like, in Hollywood.
3. What we did over the weekend.
4. Where we went on vacation. (Hollywood?)
5. When will we have the vacation pictures posted? (I mean, it's been 2 DAYS, now!)