How is new media technology affecting news coverdge?
January 31st, 2009
irn_brut4l asked:
Any body at the scene of a developing news story can now act as a citizen journalist giving eyes whiteness accounts to news stations as well as recording footage that can be used by news channels. This has been made posible through Mobile Phones (Cellphones). How are new media technologies, such as mobile phones, affecting news coverage?
Any body at the scene of a developing news story can now act as a citizen journalist giving eyes whiteness accounts to news stations as well as recording footage that can be used by news channels. This has been made posible through Mobile Phones (Cellphones). How are new media technologies, such as mobile phones, affecting news coverage?
February 1st, 2009 at 6:53 pm
The technology is so fast, that the news is quite often presented as fact brfore the details can be fully examined, and investigated.
This is why you see so many corrections, and retractions, and apologies published after the fact.