{"id":2679,"date":"2009-07-01T13:06:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T11:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2009-07-20T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T18:23:10","slug":"what-discriminates-science-journalists-and-science-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/07\/what-discriminates-science-journalists-and-science-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"What discriminates science journalists and science bloggers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent opinion article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v459\/n7250\/full\/4591054a.html\">Nature<\/a> may serve as my diving board here. Althoug texts are much better edited by professional journalists, the content isn&#8217;t better (driven mainly by press release). And of course, journalists must write about topics outside of their knowledge zone. Funny, they resemble<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nmore that of a priest,  taking information from a source of authority and communicating it to the congregation.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Journalists don&#8217;t have enough time for the details while bloggers can restrict themselves to their main expertise ;-) raising also a large amount of public awareness. <\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent opinion article in Nature may serve as my diving board here. Althoug texts are much better edited by professional journalists, the content isn&#8217;t better (driven mainly by press release). And of course, journalists must write about topics outside of their knowledge zone. Funny, they resemble more that of a priest, taking information from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/07\/what-discriminates-science-journalists-and-science-bloggers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What discriminates science journalists and science bloggers?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[599,1929],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","category-science-theology","tag-blog","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}