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The difference between a blogger and a commenter
Just riffing off the above Tweet, where, once again, someone in established media (print/TV) has confused the roles of blogger and commenter.
Blogger: Someone who writes (blogs) the post/article.
Commenter: Someone who comments on that post/article.
News Ltd. does this all the time, calling their commenters bloggers. Why?
The intermingling of the two is confusing and grating.
If you call a commenter on a particular post/article a blogger, then you are attributing the comment as if it were that of the blogger. It clearly isn't.
I know this blogging thing is still new to a lot of established media commentators, but just for the sake of accuracy (something established media claim they have a monopoly on) it would be nice to see the terms correctly used.
Update: I watched the relevant segment again, it was actually Barry Cassidy who referred to a commenter as a blogger initially, Whateley then ran with it as he made his point.
Cassidy mentioned 'a bloggers contribution to the Herald Sun during the week' with Whateley following up with a quote from an 'Andy from Brisbane......'
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