Only a minority of bloggers see any kind of relationship with journalism. Most blogs focus on personal experiences, and do not focus on the news media in any way. It is a vocal minority of US-American A-list bloggers who constantly misreprent the image of blogging and push blogging into their direction, either left or right, towards the news industry. As a matter of fact, blogs are first of all easy to use software and should be regarded as the next generation of the home page. There is no intrinsic relationship between blogging and news.

Cheers, Geert

Only a minority of bloggers see any kind of relationship with journalism.

Here are some of the figures:

54% of bloggers say that they have never published their writing or media creations anywhere else; 44% say they have published elsewhere.
54% of bloggers are under the age of 30.
Women and men have statistical parity in the blogosphere, with women representing 46% of bloggers and men 54%.
76% of bloggers say a reason they blog is to document their personal experiences and share them with others.
64% of bloggers say a reason they blog is to share practical knowledge or skills with others.
When asked to choose one main subject, 37% of bloggers say that the primary topic of their blog is “my life and experiences.”
Other topics ran distantly behind: 11% of bloggers focus on politics and government; 7% focus on entertainment; 6% focus on sports; 5% focus on general news and current events; 5% focus on business; 4% on technology; 2% on religion, spirituality or faith; and additional smaller groups who focus on a specific hobby, a health problem or illness, or other topics.