Writing at Examiner.com this Friday, I reported about a study done by Professor Richard Davis of BYU which observed interesting patterns in the way that blogs are being used by average news consumers, as well as which blogs most traditional journalists frequent in their own search for information.

Excerpted from the Examiner.com article:

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… More than 200 journalists were queried by the researchers, most of whom confirmed being very aware of political blogs on the left and right.  Despite being aware of conservative and liberal blogs, in practice, journalists spend more time reading left-wing blogs.  According to Prof. Davis the effect of mainstream reporters spending so much time ingesting content from one side of the political debate will logically color their own story selection and context.

“When journalists take story ideas from blogs, those ideas naturally will come from blogs they read,” Davis said. “These reading patterns suggest journalists may be getting primarily one view of the blogosphere.”

Read my entire article at Examiner.com.

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