If the is any of the people relaying on journalists even
after the introduction of social media’s
and smart phones if I were you I would feel
ashamed especially for people situated in urban areas because you among
the consumers that always get late news.
Anyone in this age of social media can be citizen journalist
and a reporter. Because people who use social media have an easy access in
reaching the number of people at the same time, even better they using social
media’s that among the best mass communication strategies globally to name the
few Facebook and twitter. Two weeks back I was running an observation that was
helping me out to understand how do so many people reach eye witness news so
fast that even before the media broadcasters’ have reached the activity or
journalist have written an article. The answer I got was that in this modern
age every individual share anything abnormal, hilarious which occurs around
them. And have started to recognise how much credit is given to every main
source. Here is a important link from highly ranked sources agreeing with me journalists need to close the gap if the are to be important in this age
According to Bivins, T.H. (2014). 8th Edition. Public
relations writing: The essentials of style and format. New York: Mc Graw
Hill. Journalist involves a good writer
or a news researcher that searchers news from different sources combining a
perfect match and sharing it with the public. What would you say if I’m telling
you that we live in the world where people recognise the opportunity of making
money or creating a living threw selling and sharing news? So me as a web 2.0 user I search news by
scrolling down threw my social networks such as twitter and Facebook collect
from different sources that posted about the same topic and share how I
understand the statements and create myself a source by doing so .it’s possible
that I’m also a journalist of different type. Just imagine how many people are
doing the same thing as mine and tell me we still need journalists in the age
of social media? Because I disagree and say we don’t need them
very well said, social media have created a global village whereby people can connect and share instant information and current events rather than relying on journalists for information.
ReplyDeleteyou just hit it on the head with a hummer even thou we don't have full control over the information but we have that little control that makes things hard for journalists
DeleteI couldn't agree more with you man, with the advent of social networks we can read the news that we specifically like and we can fetch directly from the internet, without the worry of waiting for the 7pm bulletin. Journalists and their gatekeepers have always dictated what we hear in a space of 30 minutes, surely some information is deemed to be unimportant but we will find on the net still.
ReplyDeleteby saying "we can " you talking about us and if you review my post you will recognise that you agreeing with my statement
DeleteMr Fafuli i disagree with you we still need journalist in this age,because i feel like social networks accommodates only young people what about old age group who knows nothing about Facebook or twitter?
ReplyDeletefacebook and twitter are not the only social networks what about whatsapp that is being used by all age?
DeleteI also agree with Mr. Donald we do still need journalism in this age, because not everyone can utilize the social media effectively there are still people who depend heavily on journalist's articles as news.
ReplyDeletewhat I can tell you is social media knows the best language of communicating with the reader because no policies of writing should be followed and even rural areas people have one access to social media
DeleteI truly agree with you, journalists are just there to tell the story in more details.
ReplyDeleteits always been like they just put news in a write detailed way but the topic is the same
ReplyDeleteOne can say that traditional media is dying but, I think that there are those people who still prefer to watch the news and go buy the newspaper. Not everyone has been swallowed by the digital media.
ReplyDeleteYou talking about all age my dear im sorry if im insulting you but in reality that is around us social media is the eish
DeleteI agree with you. we no longer relay on journalist for news and we don't have time to wait for tomorrow in-order to get today news. social media is the platform to use for news in 21st century.
ReplyDeleteExacly why pay for news if you can get them for free..journalists sell news while we can have them for free
DeleteQuite Insightful points you made Mr Fafuli, But I still think we need Journalists to make sense of all the feeds we get from the net. And Journalists should work hand-in-hand with Social Media to ensure it sustainability. Great blog though.
ReplyDeleteTrue point there i agree with you by saying we need them for sense which is in news that need explaination and those that need time target
DeleteLooking at the need of journalists as an essential aspect of citizens and P.R.Ps.we do need journalists as they have studied towards this qualification and have a certain way of reaching their audiences.
ReplyDeleteeducation grades does not make a person a better and effective news collector years we do still want them but we don't need them because im sure even you most of the news you get hold is through social medias
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