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> There's no fundamental difference between a news site and a blog.

There is a difference. A blog is short for web log which implies a personal journal. Anyone can publish a blog without editorial oversight. A news site implies that professional journalists are producing reports with editorial and literary standards. Clearly many media companies blur this line though to the detriment of readers and journalists.

> A lot of them even use the same software.

What difference does that make? The vast majority of web sites use the same web server software (Apache/Nginx)...and the same software elsewhere in the stack.




"Professional journalist" just means you're a blogger that gets paid. And everybody has standards. Some people just like to wave theirs around a little more.




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