Recent technological developments, particularly with regard to internet technology, have dramatically increased access to information and facilitated the proliferation of information sources. The need to instantly access this information and to allow the spread of digital information on the internet has eroded the capacity of professional journalists to create and disseminate news. A significant reason for this is that a new class of journalists – aptly referred to as citizen journalists – have exploited the new medium and the new information age.
Citizen journalists are not professional journalists – they are members of the community who contribute to news production through various types of media, and participate at different levels of the news production process. They may gather, process or disseminate news of all kinds, particularly on the internet using web logs or “blogs.” Their contribution is, however, immediately controversial. In the industry they may be considered a valuable resource for more accessible news, for example the popular CNN iReport function, which relies on news and information from citizen journalists. Others consider their contribution a threat to journalistic standards, and to the industry at large.
I consider that if the growth of citizen journalism remains unchecked, the news industries and consumers accessing the news stand to lose on various fronts. A consequence may be that declining standards of news production will reduce the value and credibility of news made available to the public.
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Tags: cnn ireport, different levels, web logs
I'm honestly uphauled that you would leave a video of a fatality up on youtube. This man has a family and friends he left behind, the fact that you have this constant reminder and a video for the whole world to see is terrible. Think twice about things you do, it all comes back in the end, view count isn't THIS important.
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That is why all that matters is QUALITY of life.
Once you start maximizing THAT utility function, THEN you start proving that some algorithms -
(outlaw human meat-eaters, euthanize lions) – are better – i.e. closer to optimal – than other algorithms, such as yours and the whole history of humanity: (let humans do whatever they want to non-humans, but step-over-eggshells with respects to other humans – no matter how much torture that causes)
i would say that my Groupon coverage has been "fair", but doesn’t adhere to journalistic standards of balance.