Bloggings relation to journalism or documentary

In the reading for last week, Adrian Miles mentioned that blogs are an extended form of journalism or documentary. It notion was argued in tutorial by one of the member in our class. I would like to add my own view to this notion and to defend the view that it is seen as a medium similar to documentary journalism. In specific relation to the events in Lebanon crisis or conflict. When you search on the internet through any search engine such as google or yahoo, for information on damage to the nation, you're more likely to be provided with links to blogs and personal sites than a multi-national new corporation. I believe that news journalism and news documentary media is being redefined, this is due in part to the failings of multi-national news corporations such as fox and abc for not providing both sides of the story. To over come this sacristy of differing biases or vie ws, the general population have turned to the web which is largely un-controlled or mediated for the multitude of differing views on specific events. In addition to to this differing view on events, there are also pictorials published on blogs which otherwise would not have been presented to the general public, such as photos of marine life which has suffered as well in the conflict.http://beirutupdate.blogspot.com/2006/07/pics-of-environmental-damage-oil-slick.html Not only does the blog allow anyone with a computer to be able to present their views to a wide audience it also allows citizens to reports from restricted or isolated region in conflict and present their versions of what is happening or happened more or less live. http://gdaeman.blogspot.com/2006/07/lebanon-damage-report-2006.html So I total defend blogging as a form of documentary.