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Yes, most news these days is highly suspect since all they are doing is reading or copying press releases.
Blogs are much more credible.
Anyone can set up and publish their own weblog on whatever topic they like. Some people publish news, some publish poetry, songs, stories, random thoughts, rants, events, opinions, etc.
News is supposed to be unbiased and factual (that is not a joke, they really are supposed to be unbiased and factual - really, that was how it was supposed to be) while a blog is whatever the owner decides it is.
Credibility.
True, but clouding that is the fact that many news sites (newspapers, etc.) are running blogs to post news and rumors (from their writers) that don't make it into the traditional articles.
Acternaweb, your question seems a bit too vague to me to really get an accurate response. Some sites use a blog as their method of posting news, which blurs any line that exists between the two. I think "blog" has become one of those buzzwords that a lot of people feel they need to use to look current, and they use it to describe things that end up stretching the definition a bit of what a blog is.
"Blogging" being trendy these days, some businesses and sites have taken to publishing "blogs" in place of what might have been "announcements" or "releases" or "news." Others run them in conjunction with one another, posting a blurb in a blog to be followed up with a full-length article later. Others use them as journals or as an otherwise independent feature: products, services, company history, support... and chief engineer's blog.
