The Beeb is reporting that the Pew Internet and American Life Project surveyed 233 "active bloggers" and found that 65% of them do not consider their blogging to be journalism. The article seems to take the stance that blogging is therefore not journalism.
Now, I realize that blogging about an article on a corrupt news service that is talking about a highly-propagandized organization's findings on blogging is pretty amazingly silly, but I'm going to take a moment to do so anyway - because this is journalism.
But wait, there's more. You know all those stupid, meaningless diaries? They're not necessarily stupid and meaningless to someone else. A hundred years from now, those blogs (their archives, anyway) will be one of the most eye-opening and informative looks back on the culture of our day. It doesn't exactly make them journalism, but then, lots of what passes for journalism in ancient history wasn't meant as journalism either, it was simply personal commentary that eventually was unearthed and reproduced in textbooks.
Finally, the beeb has no business criticising anyone else's journalistic integrity, since they consistently get things wrong, especially in technology news. They provide oversimplified descriptions which often miss the point and which are frequently completely incorrect.
But, nice try anyway, kids. Try harder next time. Regardless, blogs are getting more page views than you are, because they provide commentary on every story. At least, those are the blogs getting the hits. And of course, traditional "news" outlets like the beeb can't do that, because there would be comments like this one left under it, and it would make them look like idiots. To be fair, they're not exactly idiots, they're just sailors clinging to pieces of their ship - in this case, the shattered remnants of a dying business model.