Criticism/Uncensored: Why Fashion Bloggers Are Not Journalists, and How They Killed Their Credibility

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via College Gloss

Fashion bloggers are not journalists. There, I said it. But there are no absolutes, and I have qualifiers to add.

The battle between editors and bloggers has been raging for years as to legitimacy of online media as a viable news source. With major news stories being broken on Twitter, and newspapers moving online, it's pretty clear that news, if published online, is still news.

The truth is, the two terms are not exclusive. There are journalists who blog and adhere to all expected standards of ethics when publishing online, and there are bloggers who approach their work as journalists, doing their best to ensure that they work to earn their credibility in a digital space.

But let's talk fashion for a moment.

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