israelmao:
Stating your opinion does not make you a journalist but exercising of freedom of expression.

Lautechgossip:
​Bloggers tend to challenge mainstream media organisations since the arrival of the internet, due to the attention they enjoy from the public. However mainstream media organisations are known for objectivity within the news industry.

In a bid to ensure professionalism within the news industry, Lagos lawyer and human right activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has urged the NUJ and other relevant bodies to go back to their drawing board to enable them check the recklessness of the social media publishers.

While noting that the media profession is very important to the socio-political development of every society.

“For me, anybody that is going to publish anything using online channel, should have a registered website and we must be able to trace them. Technology has gone beyond anybody just writing down anything as website.

Similarly the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, castigated the recklessness of bloggers in his speech during the Annual National Conference and General Meeting of the NIPR held in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Thursday, 27 April 2017.

According to the minister of information, ”today anyone with a phone and data is a journalist”

Meanwhile the issue of professionals and amateurs still remain in the news industry, prompting questions like who are bloggers, what are their level of education, which area do they specialize in.

http://kikiotolu.com/bloggers-pose-tension-in-news-industry-falana-lai-mohammed/

chinjo:
You can gag the media but you can't silence bloggers. Bloggers will continue to expose the rots in this government no matter the intimidation. Buhari rode on the back of social media to become president and now bloggers have suddenly become a threat.

HeyCorleone:
I don't just like the way bloggers spread irrelevancies around. Like the many of them whose post make FP these days. "check out so and so N1million Pajamas" or "So and so visits so and so". Like how does that help anything.

Honestly bloggers have the power to spark a revolution in this country. But they'd rather focus on very stupid and unrewarding things.

They don't know that the likes of Linda Ikeji get paid to post such stuff.

PrecisionFx:










There can never be a revolution in Nigeria.

Bolustical:
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Who can be more foolish? Someone that led over 3 million of his people to the slaughter only to disguise as a woman to Ivory Coast OR the one who ran out to eat Sharwama in Ghana after he led his people to drink mud last year?

littlewonders:
Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are anufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing."

Philip K. Dick.


The media censors a lot of things the public should rightly know about politicians. we are kept in the dark. they are scared of saying the truth or revealing flaws of pregnant looters.

Bloggers put them all out raw. I know there are more unreliable bloggers who only generate news from their backyard to earn whatever they feel; I am not talking about them here.

But if not for bloggers we won't be knowing a lot of things going on in this country cos' the media professionals or journalists as are termed to be, won't completely say facts because they fear the government.

PrecisionFx:











There can never be a revolution in Nigeria.

ednut1:
freedom to post lies and unverified articles

chinjo:
You can gag the media but you can't silence bloggers. Bloggers will continue to expose the rots in this government no matter the intimidation. Buhari rode on the back of social media to become president and now bloggers have suddenly become a threat.