A change
The journalism world is affected by the changes in the world as well as it affects the world and drives it to changes. Sometimes this game is played on one side. The development of the technology from one side helped enhance journalistic flow and helped the news reach all the audiences at ones – through newspapers, magazines, then radio, television and finally the Internet. But even if the picture of technological journalism development may look perfect it has some disadvantages. Through years the advanced technology showed that for example, TV has some mistakes – it cannot show the full picture even if it is showing it live – you hardly can see what is happening from the back side of the operator, newspapers may have some typing mistakes but the most dangerous is Internet. Nowadays blogging is a widespread phenomenon as majority of world population has access to the Internet and has an opportunity to create blogs. The problem is whether this blogs are professional, ethical works and what kind of impact it would have on the audience.
The first question that author wants to rise is whether blogs are professional enough. Anybody can get into the system, register and have his or her own blog without major problems. But what percent of these people are professional journalists? Maybe we will never find out the answer because it is too hard to get deeper on-line and dig into the truth especially when only minority likes to open their real names instead of stupid nicknames. The authors doesn’t want to discredit those people who are not journalists but who wanted to be ones. The problem is that good journalist is not the one who writes pretty well but the one who writes up to the point and thinks twice what’s going to be the impact on audience after his or her writings and postings. In many cases the real and professional journalism may be threatened by the fake on-line one – people simply can be misleaded by the unprofessional blog and then blame the whole journalism.
Ethical issue is another problem concerning web blogging and its bad influence on whole journalism concept. The information that is posted on-line in the blogs usually is not checked on strict control and users in most cases don’t even know the basic ethical principles. According to reporters without boarders - http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15003 people who form blogs usually don’t know the basics of some ethic codes especially as some of them are longer than the US Constitution.
The citizenship journalism that is not even widely researched and known in US -http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=83126. Some of the aspects that may be posted in blogs by citizens due to their unprofessionalism and low awareness about basic ethical codes may harm the opinions and perceptions of those who read it – case of church blogging for Mr. Bush as candidate for Presidency. Many people wouldn’t vote for Mr. Bush probably if they didn’t read the blogs of their religious leaders who persuaded them to do so. The results don’t make happy the whole population not only of United States but also many countries that exist in the world.
All and all, even though the technological progress helps journalism to survive in new century and reach its audience, the Internet blogging may not be called pure journalism because it is a source for unprofessionals who usually don’t know basic ethical norms in journalism and by their entries may harm the perceptions of the audience.
The journalism world is affected by the changes in the world as well as it affects the world and drives it to changes. Sometimes this game is played on one side. The development of the technology from one side helped enhance journalistic flow and helped the news reach all the audiences at ones – through newspapers, magazines, then radio, television and finally the Internet. But even if the picture of technological journalism development may look perfect it has some disadvantages. Through years the advanced technology showed that for example, TV has some mistakes – it cannot show the full picture even if it is showing it live – you hardly can see what is happening from the back side of the operator, newspapers may have some typing mistakes but the most dangerous is Internet. Nowadays blogging is a widespread phenomenon as majority of world population has access to the Internet and has an opportunity to create blogs. The problem is whether this blogs are professional, ethical works and what kind of impact it would have on the audience.
The first question that author wants to rise is whether blogs are professional enough. Anybody can get into the system, register and have his or her own blog without major problems. But what percent of these people are professional journalists? Maybe we will never find out the answer because it is too hard to get deeper on-line and dig into the truth especially when only minority likes to open their real names instead of stupid nicknames. The authors doesn’t want to discredit those people who are not journalists but who wanted to be ones. The problem is that good journalist is not the one who writes pretty well but the one who writes up to the point and thinks twice what’s going to be the impact on audience after his or her writings and postings. In many cases the real and professional journalism may be threatened by the fake on-line one – people simply can be misleaded by the unprofessional blog and then blame the whole journalism.
Ethical issue is another problem concerning web blogging and its bad influence on whole journalism concept. The information that is posted on-line in the blogs usually is not checked on strict control and users in most cases don’t even know the basic ethical principles. According to reporters without boarders - http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15003 people who form blogs usually don’t know the basics of some ethic codes especially as some of them are longer than the US Constitution.
The citizenship journalism that is not even widely researched and known in US -http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=83126. Some of the aspects that may be posted in blogs by citizens due to their unprofessionalism and low awareness about basic ethical codes may harm the opinions and perceptions of those who read it – case of church blogging for Mr. Bush as candidate for Presidency. Many people wouldn’t vote for Mr. Bush probably if they didn’t read the blogs of their religious leaders who persuaded them to do so. The results don’t make happy the whole population not only of United States but also many countries that exist in the world.
All and all, even though the technological progress helps journalism to survive in new century and reach its audience, the Internet blogging may not be called pure journalism because it is a source for unprofessionals who usually don’t know basic ethical norms in journalism and by their entries may harm the perceptions of the audience.
References:
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Shiraz Paracha's speech on US Presidential elections of 2002
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