Evoloution of News
The oldest newspaper is from 1665 and it was called the Oxford Gazette, the problem with this was that there wasn't many people with much education so not many people could read, at that time that was the only way people accessed the news there wasn't any other way apart from word of mouth but that wasn't as popular. Now we see that younger generations use social media for a lot of news, snapchat, Facebook and twitter are the most common ways now days for younger generations to find out where as adults tend to watch the news on the TV and older generations such as grandparents tend to still buy newspapers because that is what they grew up with.
We see now that journalism is coming from everyone, people take to social media to report on events that happen around them and it is our own choice to believe them or not. Dan Gillmor suggests that "amateur journalists are taking over the professionals"
Adam Stacey was at one of the tube stations when a bomb went off in July 2005, at this point he took a photo and posted it online. When two planes were flown into the World Trade Centre on September 11th 2001 the first moments of that happening were caught on camera phones. These points both showing how
Dan Gillmor said:
'there was a cliché that journalists write the first draft of history. Now I think these people are writing the first draft of history at some level, and that's a important shift'
Keen "if we are all amateurs, there are no experts."
He also compares us to "monkeys" showing that he believes there should be professionals and amateurs. Where as if you compare it to Dan Gillmor he suggests that having everyday people write the "first draft of history" is a good thing.
Arguably it is a good thing having everyday people write the first draft of history because it will make people trust the news more than they would if it was purely journalism due to them being stereotyped into lying sometimes or twisting the news.
We see now that journalism is coming from everyone, people take to social media to report on events that happen around them and it is our own choice to believe them or not. Dan Gillmor suggests that "amateur journalists are taking over the professionals"
Adam Stacey was at one of the tube stations when a bomb went off in July 2005, at this point he took a photo and posted it online. When two planes were flown into the World Trade Centre on September 11th 2001 the first moments of that happening were caught on camera phones. These points both showing how
Dan Gillmor said:
'there was a cliché that journalists write the first draft of history. Now I think these people are writing the first draft of history at some level, and that's a important shift'
Keen "if we are all amateurs, there are no experts."
He also compares us to "monkeys" showing that he believes there should be professionals and amateurs. Where as if you compare it to Dan Gillmor he suggests that having everyday people write the "first draft of history" is a good thing.
Arguably it is a good thing having everyday people write the first draft of history because it will make people trust the news more than they would if it was purely journalism due to them being stereotyped into lying sometimes or twisting the news.
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