I was perusing the news this morning, searching for my daily fill of gaming knowledge and as it had produced quite a few interesting tidbits to write about in my earlier blog, but it also spurred an idea for another blog later.
I saw a trend amongst the bloggers which made me a bit sad, it even made me look inward towards my own writing.
It was improper writing, terrible grammar, or just the misplacing of words. It wouldn’t have been such a big concern if it didn’t continue to occur in almost every blog I read. If I’m not mistaken, isn’t online journalism a form of PROPER journalism? I would hope, at this moment, no it isn’t, because if it is being watched closely as true journalism is then we look way to out of form. I hate saying that we shouldn’t be taken seriously but honestly we couldn’t be even if we wanted to be due to all these simply overlooked errors.
In simple terms we are an out of shape solider in the military and is being considered again for our next enlistment. The end result? We fail, in so many epic ways. All because we didn’t lose that last 5 pounds, which we could easily drop if we took the time to try.
Anyone tired of the analogy? I kind of am, but it was my analogy so to a degree I love it and to another degree hate it. All I’m saying people is without proper editing, a once over read of your own article we will be stuck in the same low status as we are right now. Doing this could prevent the simple mistake of saying have instead of properly saying had. If more writers took that extra minute to actually look over their works, we wouldn’t look so.. so improper compared to the other journalists.
Those of us that use this principal, shouldn’t have to be the people who graduated college and have their accreditation in journalism. I really think that we shouldn’t be looked at like the less intellectual twin in the family. I honestly think that we need to step up our game, myself included, so someday online journalism wont just be some big joke to the licensed journalists.
