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Blogging the most current new stories can be both an exciting and controversial applications of the blogging platform. You have to be sharp and on your toes to blog news stories as they happen.

The fact that the blogosphere makes it possible to update a blog instantaneously, so the news on blogs tends to be more current than the news in the paper, or on television.

Not like news delivered by these other media sources, news that appears on blogs does not have to travel through a series of editors and administrators before it reaches the public eye. This has some advantages, and disadvantages.

The fact that news stories and images are spread directly by individuals operating without the added filter of a reporter helps to make world wide news feel very immediate to people across the globe.

Blogging news stories frequently appears to be personal and give you an inside opinion into the bloggers thoughts.

This can be both good and bad for instance it has the potential to be the beginning of an exciting new era of reporting, one that takes "New Journalism" to it's logical next step by putting the power to shape how the news is written and read directly into the hands of the public.

On the other hand it can lead to biased news reporting when blogger politicize an issue to structure it based on political opinion to further a cause.

Many blogging commentators who are leaders of the blog movement feel this new trend of individuals who ge their news from blogs is a positive thing.

They feel blogs make the flow of information more democratic. By decentralizing the control of news, blogs allow more voices to enter the field of debate about important current events.

However, many people are adamantly opposed to the use of blogs as news outlets, and there are plenty of good arguments on this side of the debate. Unlike newspapers or television stations, few blogs have fact- checkers, and there is little attention paid to journalistic accountability on many blogs.

This can lead to the rapid spread of misinformation, and more than one falsehood has taken the blogosphere by storm. The questions about whether blogging news as it happens is ethical or
not are very complicated, but no matter where you stand on the topic of current events blogs you are almost sure to agree that this movement has the potential to revolutionize how modern people get their news.