If You Can't Beat 'Em, Blog 'Em Video (DVD)

The rise of blogging has parallelled the demotion of mainstream news as the way to get news to the public. The blog has become a new way for people to report the news and get it out quickly to a mass audience. In this 22-minute film, find out what blogging has meant for traditional journalists and how they have had to adapt to this new form of reporting. Journalists have had to familiarize themselves with the formats of blogs and rethink how they get the news to the public. In this movie, ABC News looks at the wide community of news bloggers and discusses major stories that were introduced to the public by bloggers. The differences between traditional reporting and blogging are examined in this movie that brings many aspects of today's news reporting to the forefront.