When I was in Korea, major newspapers in Korea enraged readers because they often disregarded and wrote the article opposite readers’ opinions. These major newspapers only dealt with government’s opinion. Thus, many people built up a campaign against these newspaper and many people try to make their own news on their blogs or other newspaper sites. Through this process, I can know civil journalism.
(Ohmynews is the most famouse news site as civil journalism in Korea. Left: Korean Right: International)
By development on Internet, civil journalism is famous concept in these days. People are not passive readers on newspapers any longer. They can write out article that express their thought by themselves. Through these active by readers, the influence of existing newspapers is decreasing than before when they leaded people’s opinion about the society.
Sometimes civil journalism is the place where the unconfirmed rumors are spread out and lack of information filtering makes problems which people believe the wrong truth about the celebrity or corporation such as Steve Jobs.
However, I think civil journalism is a good phenomenon of internet. First, newspapers should get out of their misunderstanding that they can control people’s thought through their existing power of influence and then have to try to co-opt with their readers. Second, the social issues which are ignored or neglected by traditional newspaper can be known and make attention among people. Especially, the matter of censorship within one country or the unknown global issues according to the power of country such as the war in the world can be known to the general public. Therefore, civil journalism can be easy to obtain a diversity of information in the world and disclose information more transparency among the readers so it’s difficult to cover up the issues. Furthermore, people can get a variety of sight about the matter.
By development on Internet, civil journalism is famous concept in these days. People are not passive readers on newspapers any longer. They can write out article that express their thought by themselves. Through these active by readers, the influence of existing newspapers is decreasing than before when they leaded people’s opinion about the society.
Sometimes civil journalism is the place where the unconfirmed rumors are spread out and lack of information filtering makes problems which people believe the wrong truth about the celebrity or corporation such as Steve Jobs.
However, I think civil journalism is a good phenomenon of internet. First, newspapers should get out of their misunderstanding that they can control people’s thought through their existing power of influence and then have to try to co-opt with their readers. Second, the social issues which are ignored or neglected by traditional newspaper can be known and make attention among people. Especially, the matter of censorship within one country or the unknown global issues according to the power of country such as the war in the world can be known to the general public. Therefore, civil journalism can be easy to obtain a diversity of information in the world and disclose information more transparency among the readers so it’s difficult to cover up the issues. Furthermore, people can get a variety of sight about the matter.
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I totally understand what you wrote since my country is even more restricted on such information
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