New technologies have advanced journalism further than ever. While it has been argued that social networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, can lead to a loss of ethics and journalism integrity, the advantages that can be gained from the use of such sites are endless.
Twitter updates can provide updated news immediately. Many news organizations attend events and are able to provide the public with up-to-the-minute news. With these updates, the public will turn more and more to that particular news organization when they want to know what’s going on, and if an initial report is wrong, it will be more easily forgiven than one that has taken awhile to be reported.
Also, with sites such as Facebook, status updates, pictures, and videos can help provide the world immediately with photos of events that have been sent to Facebook.
While journalists should be careful with how they use social networking sites, I think that if used properly, these sites can help provide the world with news faster and easier, which is the direction that journalism needs to move in to stay ahead. I think it would be more detrimental to journalists to not use these sites to their advantage.
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