openly admit I do not know how to rank in my head the so-called citizen journalism. On the one hand, I can not deny its interest, its timing, freshness and, if you ask me, their informational value. However, I find considerable period, at least as As I understand this profession. I understand that there
for whom the only requirement to be met by a reporter is writing in a medium of communication, but for me being a journalist is much more. Beyond the debate about whether to study journalism to exercise or not, I think that this profession does require a few rules and requirements.
I mean by this that I find very commendable that a man with his camera passes by a place at that time is taking a police charge, a traffic accident or an attack and achieve a great and instant send it to a medium counting what happened. But that is not journalism. In the end, always must have a professional calibrate the importance of this news, which at its fair value measurement, which contrast the information has been circulated, seeking to provide more data ... it offers, in short, that added value that only a professional can give. For any news, any information, is no stranger to a context, a categorization. The information is important or not depending on other things that have happened, according to their special character or other factors.
For this reason, leave journalism with a capital in the hands of the people is like giving a truncheon and a gun to the first pass and give police powers. No Indeed, most try to do justice, but hers. Thus, every citizen's photo, your story, will seem most important. At the moment it has a professional filtering and decide if it's important or not, whether it is worthy of being published or not, we will not be speaking as a citizen, and citizen's issues at their own risk in a blog or in some way "out of control" shall cease to be journalism.
believe that witness, supervise, monitor, record, collect data, inspect ... is something else. Journalism Is it the work of international observers in elections, conflict mediators, the enumerators to collect data, inspectors to monitor compliance with the law? Nor think it is, but insist that no disabilities in all its documentary value-what a guy writes in his Twitter account of what happens around him, by exciting or dangerous as that is. Telling is not the same as journalism.
So I think with few exceptions, journalism is difficult to regard as so no longer be in the right place at the right time, which does not mean that the product of that "chance" no longer has value or not be published. But journalism is something else, I do not know if better or worse, but nothing else.
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