Today's Journalism

John Carpenter
jc898610@ohio.edu

With today's technology rapidly growing, journalism will indefinitely grow with it.  The way news and media are presented to the public, and even journalists, is beyond comprehension as to what we thought it'd be.  That being said, everyone has a voice, yet everyone has eyes and ears too.  What's officially published on the Internet will forever be judged by someone or something.  The fact that the social media world presents us with vast opportunities to access information, everyone will, evidently, take something this way or that.  

The way that social media leaks its information can be taken negatively by some populations, and we've seen blatant cases of this.  This bold, rash, pounding of information via social media enables journalists to broadcast any story or headliner right away.  The problem with social media, involving journalists, is that sometimes viewers don't exactly take the presented information the right way.  It can be skewed, or even outrageously true.  Whether the story is positive or negative, viewers will always have different opinions than the journalist.  Social media has given us all a quick navigation cycle through information that we want to see, and unfortunately, some we don't.

In the article "Want to Stop Mass Murder" by Christopher Hanson, the obvious driving negatory factor is the media's constant urge to get every single bit of the story until the viewers ask, "Did I really need to see/know that?"  

The media is different than social media, and they both are troubling for some journalists.  The media will drive the hell out of a story, while social media is a lot more uneducated opinions and voices of bystanders.  That's the troubling part for journalists, because they need facts and only facts.  

Journalists that present information via social media have to be encompassed by thousands and thousands of simply uneducated people.  The driving force of journalists is the truth.  It's a journalist's job to find the truth and present it any way possible, even through social media.  

Nowadays journalists are being socially and emotionally involved in social media and are getting away from the true objective, which is to present the information and move on.  The nation has built an indescribable need for media and the presented information of every "catching" story.  The problem that's occurring is the everlasting need of time.  People, or rather victims, don't need blatant news coverage the second after a tragedy.  We become so indulged with how quickly we can attain information that the truth will forever be skewed amongst vast amounts of viewers.