Before three weeks ago, I pretty much viewed journalism solely as newspaper articles, documentaries, magazine articles and the six o' clock news. Yes, I was quite old fashioned in my views on this matter, however I HAD learned to accept the fact that Yahoo and MSN exhibited a variety of headlines and stories. I could even congratulate the fact that one could watch the news again online if you regrettably missed it or are just a big fan of Natalie Barr or Le Lin Chin. That was fair enough. However, on my first lecture I was told straight up that ‘YOU ARE THE JOURNALIST!’. Well, I was flattered, but I had not even finished my first journalism lecture and was finding this notion rather unfathomable.
Apparently, every thing we post online is an avenue of journalism. Now, this is something that I am still finding hard to deal with. Even with my usually open mind, it is still registering in my brain the notion that even Facebook and Twitter can be defined as journalism. How can this be? Please, elaborate to me how "Just woke up lmfao",
"Bored as inbox me" and
"I love you but you'll never know!"
constitute pieces of journalism? I interpret these as mindless brainwaves that transfer from people’s heads onto Facebook. I mean seriously, I feel like I am a counsellor every time I scroll down the news feed. So this whole idea of myself being a journalist before I even began my first year courses let alone finish my degree was on the whole, quite unsettling.
"Bored as inbox me" and
"I love you but you'll never know!"
constitute pieces of journalism? I interpret these as mindless brainwaves that transfer from people’s heads onto Facebook. I mean seriously, I feel like I am a counsellor every time I scroll down the news feed. So this whole idea of myself being a journalist before I even began my first year courses let alone finish my degree was on the whole, quite unsettling.
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