With the world moving into a technological phase can journalism survive? For instance twitter is a social networking site that connects ordinary and prominent people at just the click of a button where in the past it was almost impossible keeping up with our celebrities without our journalists or media but all that has changed. Today an “ordinary” person can tweet about something that will in minutes turn out to be a news story. But will this hurt or assist journalists. Well with everything or rather most things in life there are always pros and cons and the same goes with twitter, twitter can propagate some issues and maybe phase out others and even stir up sensationalism. As a journalism student twitter makes life easy and the accessing of news and gossip quick which means I do not have to be in front of a TV or reading the paper to know what is going on in the world anymore. Twitter can be accessed on your cell phone (if browser enabled) which means everywhere, anytime you can get what’s what. It’s a great way of sourcing information and expressing ones view openly without having to be correct but can also be of great danger when people tend to rely more on twitter than what media has to say. Though it’s great for sourcing it’s as good as Wikipedia-unreliable.
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