A blog is the personal space of its author. This seems obvious. Even if it is a blog on the website of a newspaper (or other media) - it should not be edited anyway, this is not a genre.
If the author has been entrusted with blogging, then no one else should interfere in this personal space. But the responsibility, of course, is all on the author of the blog.
However, in practice it turns out that. The StinkyJournalism website, which studies ethics in the American media, conducted a study to find out if the process of publishing and editing blogs differs from publishing other content on the websites of American newspapers. ')
And that's what they found out :
68% of blogs (404 out of 591), published on the websites of American newspapers, are officially edited .
1% of blogs (8 out of 591) are considered news content .
7 out of 10 newspapers claim that they are editing all blogs . Among them: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times And The Boston Globe.
The New York Post says it edits everything except six sports life blogs.
The San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Sun-Times have stated that they have never edited blogs on their sites.
Who is right? And is it necessary to measure blogs as a separate measure?