> 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.
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.