Online journalism is defined as the reporting of facts when produced and distributed via the Internet. The online journalism is getting at its peak right now. Its have its own group of followers or it can be defined as the fanatic readers. It has been noticed that people no longer buy the printed newspapers except if they want to keep it for their own reference purposes. The internet users sees it has a readily available and less costly network.
There are many advantages as it acts as democratic medium, which sometimes the online journalism noted what are the news that the mainstream do not cover. Besides, its encourages the two way communication that allowed the readers to give comments and to receive the feedback. Its huge space that cam occupied a number of news in just one pages is very convenient as well as it is high reach in information.
Furthermore, it is low production cost rather than the printed news, faster in uploaded news as soon as the incident happens. The multimedia facilities provided is very attracting and it can boost the website to be more informative.
However, the online journalism also need and should to be controlled. It is because of a few factors that forcing. The first and foremost is because the online journalism is not a credible medium because all of these writing have no verification of facts. it is very dangerous and should be controlled as the irresponsible journalists can always spread rumours and it can cause havoc to public especially. The desire to publish brand new information and the ease of which it can be altered may cause information to be made accessible before it verified. This undermines the journalistic principle of accuracy and can lead to misinformation.
Not to forget the ethical issues that it can brings. Basically, this ethical issues is connected to the certain types of online journalist that used this medium to influence readers in term of political understanding. It is usual to read such articles that keep condemning the oppositions, the government and also the artist as we saw its kind of hurtful sometimes and the truth it cannot be verified.
As the online journalism have no gatekeeper involved, they are free to write and publish any kind of news and features. Therefore all of these write up can be the source of the unethical writing that may lead to many consequences if the public failed to interpreted the exact meaning.
According to myself, TK, it is very dangerous to not controlled the online journalism as we are living in Malaysia, a country that have a lot of races in it.
P/s : If you think that the online journalism should not be controlled as it can be its uniqueness in news reporting, do leave your comments here. Assalamualaikum.
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