Blogging n' Journalism

I think that it is fairly obvious that blogging has influenced and affected modern journalism.  For starters, the media in which we get our news has changed drastically over the past 10 years.  T.V., radio and the paper were the norm before the the internet hit... obviously.

Now, newspapers have been condensed because of online papers and most news papers have an online counterpart that will most likely take over eventually.

I think a good example of the contrast of old journalism and new blogging journalism is the  events of 9/11.  It was only a matter of time until multiple conspiracy theories  surfaced and blogging and internet journalism was the soap box for these theorists to tell their opinions.  If you search online, you will find numerous blogs and sites dedicated to these amateur detective's search for the truth.  Ideas, footage, news articles and interviews can now be shared instantly creating a communal data base for the people to share and build upon ideas.

Could you imagine if the net and blogging were around for the Kennedy assassination?  Back then only one piece of footage truly captured the deathblow to our President and the public had far less information about what happened (or could have happened) other than the official report.  If that had happened to day, much like the 9/11 attacks, there would have been numerous videos taken from all angles and bloggers would have used all of that footage and info from the net to build cases or theories as to what happened.  These ideas would have reached many more people by way of blogging.