jueves, 6 de noviembre de 2008

Journalism on the Internet: the other side of the truth


Journalism is the profession of communicating, for the benefit of a community. With the invention of Internet, journalistic world has had a lot of changes. Internet is a tool for the journalist, with this tool they can develop the news by way of further talking about the topic that they want to voice.


First and foremost, some people think that Internet have a weakness with “garbage” information that is upload for everyone who has access to the Web, but it depends of the situation because, according to one publication of the magazine called Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, Internet would have a defined dimensions talking about the quantity and quality of the websites, and it will be offering a professional differentiation that makes that the public find it every day, in the middle of the overflow of news, data, services, games and things that offers continuously this digital space.


For this reason, some people say that sometimes news published on Internet hasn’t a realiable source to arguing the information that it gives. Consequently, the veracity of journalism is threatened by people who don't actually engage in the profession, like bloggers.


Additionaly, in the future, the newspaper will not disappear and not as a cause of the invention of the Internet. According to the The survey of trends in the press in the world (wich presented in Brasil in June 2000), show that sales of newspapers has been increasing in twenty five of the fourty six countries studied, for this reason, the scientist say that Internet need the paper to survive.


Furthermore the information around the world moves throw the web that we use, this faster information, has a lot of benefits and profits for our society, because it’s free use, and easy share things like: science, economy and politics nowadays can be in world’s scope of knowledge, the same with the personal communication, “p2p”.


In conclusion, Internet and journalism can be complementary, because the technology made eassier the life of humanity. Journalist have the possibility to access to all type of information in order to make a good work writting news taking into account the quantity and quality of the information that they want published in the different web pages.