21st Century News

We have come along way from how news would originally have been transmitted. We can now capture any news story that has come out in an instant, through mobile phones, iPads, TV's and laptops and since these devices were created, news has become alot more in the publics interest. Go back a couple of years and news would have to be orally transmitted or peer-to-peer transmission, some people wouldn't find out news for months, it would also be impossible to read newspapers if you wasn't in London.
Luckily news now comes out frequently and regularly, theres almost nothing we don't know about.

But is there ever any hazards of having 24 hour news? How about the pressures on the journalists that are having to keep up with all the regular income. We may find that because they are wanting to write all the stories up so quickly, we could get some misleading impressions and wrong information. There is also of course the cost, 24 hour news is extremely expensive to keep up with.

However with all the different websites and channels, such as Youtube and Twitter, almost anyone can now become a blogger. Alot of people on Youtube have made Channels where they will take stories they have seen on the news and give their views on it. The video I have uploaded is a clear example of public journalism. A person of the public has seen the incident and took a video to broadcast from the scene. Bassically, if you have a mobile phone, with a video camera, congratulations! You are now a journalist.

Are we loosing are traditional ways, such as news papers to the internet? I think so, it is just so much easier to get to now, and the stories are alot more visual. Although we have no decision on what news is aired, interested in it or not it will be shown, as typical humans, we have more concern in our lives than others, but is the news making us decide what is important to us, and how we should judge it?

Overall without news we would have no idea about what is really going on in the world we live in today.