Chris Hughes writes from the UK:

Alright, I’m a journalism student in Britain right now, and I have just started my dissertation on blogging, titled ‘are bloggers journalists’ obviously I went through Google to find out peoples opinions and your Google video came up.

One point I would like to make as a person who chose to study journalism wanting to be a journalist ironically paying to be a journalist to my university is that. Journalists doesn’t just want to right a story because we get paid we write and chose the stories because they’re important we provide a public service and we choose to do so. Bloggers right about what they want to right about, which might be similar however journalists right not only what people want to hear but what they should hear. I might come across as biased in this but to be honest I am, I am writing for all the journalists out there who have chosen to do so who train hard, who work hard. We can’t be so easily replaced or generalized as bloggers simply because we both right on the internet. The core of being a journalist as you said was to be objective and the core of being a blogger is well as you said not to be objective but subjective, it’s a personal opinion.

Journalists and Bloggers are fundamentally different, and no they are not journalists because they are not objective and for other reasons. Which if you would like I will explain in another email, as for this email I would like to presume that I have tried to explain how we as journalist feel, to be so easily replaced is somewhat annoying and rather insulting, that any ‘Joe blog’s’ (forgive the pun) can be a journalist by writing a ‘blog’ seems too easy. Journalists might not get it right all the time, we might not get it wrong all the time but we try each and every time and we ARE accountable for our actions, at least in this country. Well I’ve tried to make my point as always people will agree and disagree but I hope for the most part people will agree.

I think the lines will continue to blur – and that people always need to consider the source, no matter who presents any particular piece. I’ve met bloggers who are better informed than their journalist counterparts… and vice versa.