Repost from 2009 - how bad has it gotten since?
Journalism 2.0
People are talking about Journalism 2.0 lately.
This is partly a
theory that journalism as we knew it is now dead. It has to do with the
modern media, TV news, newspapers, radio news. These sources for your
information seem to be unreliable and untrusted. The news you get from
newspapers is now almost 3 days old when it is printed. And they often
quote news from TV or even weblogs! TV news hours fill up with anything
but real news. Looking for 'stories' to tell within a time frame.
Entertainment at 6.
A recent study of news information revealed that
most of the younger generation get their hard news from, of all people,
Jon Stewart on the Daily Show. Walter Cronkite died and news trust died
with him. Journalism 1.0 is no longer supported, like that old Commodore
64 in a land fill somewhere, it is trash.
Most hard news outlets are
conglomerates owned by a very few powerful people. A little research
will often tell you exactly who owns them, and a little more reading
will get you the slant of that owner. A little scrutiny will even tell
you HOW the affiliated stations will report news. Do we really need to
watch Fox news for their slanted and often doctored views? What is
widely viewed to be propaganda! So why do we want to pay attention then?
Of course the research this generation is doing is on the World Wide
Web.
Aha. That's it isn't it?
The reason people are discussing Journalism 2.0.
News
now comes from people posting items on the web; in forums, blogs,
Youtube, social networking sites like Facebook. Yes, opinionized it may
be and there is a lot of chaff and misinformation, but a keen mind can
separate that from DISinformation as practiced by certain organized
media. Do we believe the antics of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck
masquerading as news commentary? Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert are on
the Comedy Network, they go for the laugh, and yet through the humor we
discern truth. Salon.com regularly scoops the major news organizations.
Wolf Blitzer fumbles through a program trying for seriousness yet seems
to be a victim of news technology! CNN ratings have plummeted.
Newspapers can no longer take the time to verify their stories in the
competition with a Youtube cell phone video of what just happened.
Journalism
is freer now that we, the people, can post stories and items and video
about what WE saw. Anywhere and anytime in the world! We no longer need
the trained reporter who can perhaps write better, or a videographer who
gets the better angle and the glistening tear, all edited for a timed
segment of the Six O'clock news (entertainment) hour.
The face of
journalism has changed and the real eloquence is in the spontaneity of
the report, whether it be from a shaky unfocused cell-phone camera or an
ungrammatical posting on a blog.
Journalism 2.0 is here and we all have a tremendous new power. We are reporting to each other now.
We need only to expose the truth.
To now - 2024
Citizen Journalism 1.01
Is truth in journalism even evident today? There are a very few writers who follow the principals of writing and commenting on events of the day. But they are NOT the current news media. The West has been hoodwinked by those few who control the world. The so-called Deep State. The TV coverage is totally slanted to present to you, what is deemed appropriate for you to hear and see. And talk show hosts full of 'panels', are now being named as 'useful idiots' by those in control.
Example; we had TWO attempts on Donald Trump's life while running for President. The first was covered on TV but without any questions OR answers of what actually happened. As usually happens on historic events, the people involved all line up like ducks in a row, to get their face time on the 6 o'clock news. Instead, they ran for cover! And nothing has been revealed yet! (This is becoming the norm, we have yet to hear any real news about the Las Vegas shootings!) It is hard to realize that the second attempt on Trump is hardly covered on TV except for the comments of TV hosts of talk shows generally accepted to be propaganda for the Left as they blame Trump himself for being shot at because he was alive.
BUT, the citizenry are now armed with video capabilities, and yes we can change angles, etc. but the truth of amateur video is still there. Even those high powered Lawyers cannot defeat this new power of the people. The folks involved in the first attempt were foiled in that there are many videos of shooter Crooks on that roof-top with a rifle, and the usual procedure by the perpetrators (FBI etc) was to confiscate all phone cameras and pretend to search for evidence, it is evident now that searches of personal phones are more directed to destroy evidence!
And as we see the future evolving, there are just too many citizen journalists watching, waiting and capturing the event and sending it off to social media, friends and others who use it in their own way. This is the future, let's hope it continues to evolve in the favor of the populace, not the Deep State conspirators.
Keep your phone close.
