Professional journalism vs amateur blogging (Group Four)

Since I basically knew nothing about journalism, this topic is fairly new to me and I've thought about such an issue. I think it really matters who are doing the news blogging. As a classmate pointed out, most of the bloggers are recording their daily lives. These blogging activities are far from journalism. The examples and case studies given by the group are really good, but it seemed to me that many of them still happened in the professional journalism field. A lot of the people are not really "amateur" in this sense. To really understand what is going on in the blog world, a lot more studies should be done, a lot more questions should be asked.