Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Social Media... Increased or decreased the quality of news.
I look at this as both an increase and a decrease. The way I see it the coverage of things happening in the world has increased ten fold, but the quality of the coverage and information has decreased if only slightly. If someone was to take amateur footage of an event [example the G20 summit] and were to send it into a news studio for them to use, I would say that would be classified as an increase in the quality and in some cases the information being received by the general populace. However if that person was to take the footage and link it to some online site [example facebook], and make some random and false heading to go with it, then I would say that that would be a decrease in the quality. In the end I would say that social media has increased the quality and the information by allowing people to see things that may otherwise not be seen, but can decrease the quality if someone is careless and misinformed.
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I whole heartily disagree with you. i understand this as an examination on what is being termed news and what is not. It appears as though you have qualified weather it is news or not by means of delivery and not content. Weather is be posted on facebook or televised news its determination should be based on if the information affects a person either in a positive or negative way and if it is actual information and not released on an entertainment directive. I do believe that with more people having access to recording devices it does increase the coverage in which a news story may have and may in fact increase the quality but I strongly believe that it must fall under one of the two fallowing circumstances I previously mentioned.
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