Should journalists blog? I'm not sure. In my previous blog, I mentioned Nick Robinson, who in today's blog says that he caused "quite a stir", and led to at least 52 MP's signing an early day motion against his blog yesterday.
Should he even be blogging though? We generally look to journalists for facts and analysis, not their opinion - surely that's for columnists and more generally, none-journalists to comment on the news. This blurs the boundary between fact and opinion, and is dangerous. How do we know what Nick says on the news tonight is factual, and not him just spouting some theories and his opinion? It will be interesting to see whether the BBC stop him blogging, seeing as many MPs view his blog and he has a considerable amount of sway given his public image.
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I agree Ben, I think this is an interesting subject. There is a fine line between fact and opinion. With so many journalists now blogging the line is easily crossed, which could be misleading to the more naive reader.
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