implication of online journalism

    Rapid growths on citizen journalism nowadays become worst day by day. What is mean by citizen journalism is anyone in the world trying to pull out them by posting video or own opinion to social networking or any website or weblogs towards what happen around them.

      As we can see here, they does not realize that by doing all kinds of activities can lead to implication of online journalism itself.  Journalism in Malaysia is controlled by the ruling party by ethic and rules that need to be followed by the journalists. However, for citizen journalist or so called the public like to post video to attract people condemn and critics to the action taken by people involved in that video.

     Based on the video of car accident, both of the Chinese men should take it as an accident and settle it without take any serious action towards each other. Nevertheless, they show some low morality to surrounding and fight without think the impacts or even try to show some good behaviors. It happen in the highways on the massive jammed done by them. People all around does not took any action such as called the police or try to stop the fight. The situation shown in the video that third party posted it on the social networking called YouTube.

     This citizen journalism gives huge implication towards online journalism by experts. People simply post anything they want to shows stereotyping on what is happen. In future, third party which is the viewer is takes the advantage by comment negatively and lead to damaging the reputation of online journalism.

     Online journalism is the profession that gives benefits to the public whom like to access the internet for looking the truth and information delivered by the journalists. And because of the activities done by the citizen journalism, it cover up the world of online journalism. People are not easily trust the news and information given by the experts anymore. it will affect the reputation of the journalists and the experts that seriously involved in online journalism that make it as their profession. 

*a video above only for example on implication on online journalism

Posted by siti noorafera at 2:15 AM