Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Conjoining Ways of Journalism
MacMillan, R. (2005). Witnesses to History. Retrieved October 21, 2008, from Washingtonpost.
"The London attacks moved the trend to a new level. Web sites from the BBC's to the Guardian's provided eyewitness accounts, some showing up as little as an hour or two after the first bomb went off. They ran alongside the staff reporters' accounts and presumably with the same amount of editing."
MacMillan talks of how the citizen journalism has really helped in the past with the bomb attacks on London. The people who were there were able to give breaking news on what was going on. He states that the essence of reporting is to provide vivid, factual accounts of history as it happens around us. He also states that professional journalist are trying to keep the money coming in while citizen journalist are making their rounds.
"The London attacks moved the trend to a new level. Web sites from the BBC's to the Guardian's provided eyewitness accounts, some showing up as little as an hour or two after the first bomb went off. They ran alongside the staff reporters' accounts and presumably with the same amount of editing."There is a cliché that states the early bird that wakes up in the morning gets the breakfast. This relates to the journalist and the citizen journalist because both are competing with each other to get the true story and news to the people first. Journalist are complaining that citizen journalist are taking their profits. I think that citizen journalism is good because it fills in the gaps that other news cannot. We do not need to be feuding over which one is better or what money is being lost. The solution is to conjoin the citizen journalist and the professional journalist into the journalist professional operation. Therefore the audience and the people can get a full, clear, story of what really happened to the best of every one's ability.
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A good post.
Citizen journalism has become a significant phenomenon for technological reasons as well as political reasons. Both professional and amateur reporters now have access to cheap, powerful hand-held capture devices, high-speed connections, inexpensive data storage, and sophisticated editing and production software.
While the digital revolution makes CJ technically possible, its popularity has to do with the creative pleasure and prestige of reporting and the negative feelings that many Americans feel for the mainstream media.
You will be happy to know that the traditional media are busy trying to coopt citizen journalism by incorporating them into their operations, trying to create that interactive relationship that will create brand loyalty for their news operation.
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Citizen journalism has become a significant phenomenon for technological reasons as well as political reasons. Both professional and amateur reporters now have access to cheap, powerful hand-held capture devices, high-speed connections, inexpensive data storage, and sophisticated editing and production software.
While the digital revolution makes CJ technically possible, its popularity has to do with the creative pleasure and prestige of reporting and the negative feelings that many Americans feel for the mainstream media.
You will be happy to know that the traditional media are busy trying to coopt citizen journalism by incorporating them into their operations, trying to create that interactive relationship that will create brand loyalty for their news operation.
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