By G Saravanan
Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai on March 21, 2010:
CHENNAI: Will blogs make traditional media (electronic and print) obsolete by disseminating news faster to users? The answer is yes if you ask the bloggers.
They say the New Media could threaten traditional media in a few years from now. Blogs are, in any case, becoming an alternate source of information for lakhs of people who have access to the Internet or advanced mobile gadgets.
That was the consensus of more than 200 ardent bloggers from Chennai and Puducherry at a special meet organised by IndiBlogger here on Saturday. They expressed their opinions in a session on ‘Traditional Media and Blogging.
Balakrishnan, a journalist and regular Tamil blogger, said, “The anonymity of bloggers affects the credibility of their posts. When they are not ready to disclose their identity, what credibility can their posts have,” he wondered aloud.
But one blogger said it didn’t really matter because traditional media sometimes picked up the post for a detailed story, which would not have happened in the first instance.
To a question about the social responsibilities of bloggers, Balaganesh, one of the moderators of the event, said, “Certainly bloggers must be responsible while posting on sensitive issues. At IndiBlogger we have 16,000 registered bloggers across the country and everyone adheres to the rules on posting information.”
They say the New Media could threaten traditional media in a few years from now. Blogs are, in any case, becoming an alternate source of information for lakhs of people who have access to the Internet or advanced mobile gadgets.
That was the consensus of more than 200 ardent bloggers from Chennai and Puducherry at a special meet organised by IndiBlogger here on Saturday. They expressed their opinions in a session on ‘Traditional Media and Blogging.
Balakrishnan, a journalist and regular Tamil blogger, said, “The anonymity of bloggers affects the credibility of their posts. When they are not ready to disclose their identity, what credibility can their posts have,” he wondered aloud.
But one blogger said it didn’t really matter because traditional media sometimes picked up the post for a detailed story, which would not have happened in the first instance.
To a question about the social responsibilities of bloggers, Balaganesh, one of the moderators of the event, said, “Certainly bloggers must be responsible while posting on sensitive issues. At IndiBlogger we have 16,000 registered bloggers across the country and everyone adheres to the rules on posting information.”
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