Journalism: the changing idea

The video “How is Social Media Changing Journalism” Does make some major points about the ever-changing idea of Journalism. This video had some very good points, but something personal in my life is helping me see this change greatly. My sister, Allison Watkins is a journalist at Huffington Post. One of the major arguments that she raises is how social media is a great way of expanding one’s reaches to the public. The idea of who does one trust though, as brought up in the video is something I tend to disagree with. Sources are usually pretty easy to tell, and I find myself personally trying to stay towards more, lets say “respected sources” on matters covered by journalists, but that doesn’t mean that just because an article is long, means that it is filled with information and knowledge. Many times writers and authors, and I do mean all authors (myself included) perform the art of what I like to call B.S.ing and article. This is to make it lengthier, and seem more filling. The article “Against ‘Long-term Journalism” makes a perfect point of this. “Length is hardly the quality that most meaningfully classifies these stories” I personally don’t think that length should even be considered as a classification to stories. I find that if a story is interesting, or covering a topic that catches my attention, that’s why I read it. It does not matter length. Nor do I find it wrong how I find. In honesty, Most are found through social media sites such as Twitter or Facebook. A teacher of mine said something about this subject that I have taken to heart, called the two C’s 

“Communication Changes”

Whether or not Social Media is a new era of journalism or how an article is set up in content or length means nothing, only that it is what is here and now. And we must learn to work with it or let this way of communication fall apart.