Blogues e prática jornalística "Blogging and Journalistic Practice" é o título de um trabalho de Christopher Harper, da Temple University, que analisa "how the theories of agenda setting and gatekeeping apply to the practice of blogging". Procura também averiguar "whether bloggers have used the Web as a means to step outside of the traditional journalistic standards of accuracy, fairness, and objectivity to return to perhaps a mixture of the partisan press during the 18th and 19th centuries and the muckrakers of the early 20th Century". Algumas conclusões:

• "At times, blogs establish agendas. For the most part, however, the blogs react to the agendas set by the mainstream media and those who create and make the news, such as politicians".
• "Blogs play the role of dissectors and expanders of the agendas by framing debate over current events, primarily on the political blogs about U.S. domestic and international issues."
• "It is somewhat ironic that blogs tend to correct errors more quickly and perhaps more frequently than the mainstream media. At the same time, however, blogs often reject the mainstream media?s preoccupation with fairness and objectivity. Blogs usually present a point of view with the ability of readers to respond and react to that viewpoint. Whatever the case, it is the author?s firm belief that blogs have provided people with an ability to interpret and discuss the issues of the day in a far more expansive and engaging way than when the mainstream media dominated the news. As a result, the Internet has enabled individuals to assume more control over what they read, what is said, and how that information is interpreted in the public sphere". (dica de Ponto Media)