Nowadays there a lot of
medium that has been used in delivering news to public. As we all know,
mainstream media such as TV, radio and newspaper has been conquered this kind
of media for a long time ago. Mainstream media plays very important roles in
order to spread information to public. It can reach to large audience in a fast
way and at the same it can influence audience indirectly. Everything that has
been exposed by mainstream media can influenced public and also can change
public perception towards certain issues.
In this modern era,
everything is in our hand. The existence of internet has brings a lot of change
in spreading news towards public. By clicking mouse on the laptop, we could
find anything in this world. By using internet also, the online journalism has
been created. Many information and news we can find in online journalism. The
scope of online journalism is really huge until we also can find news around
the world. Not just only in the certain area.
Before we go too far, let
me explain little bit what is online journalism. Online journalism refers to news content produced and/or
distributed via the Internet, particularly material created by journalists who
work for mainstream market driven news organizations. While blogs and other
emerging forms of online news communication are widely acknowledged as
significantly influencing mainstream news content both on and offline, they are
considered here a distinct phenomenon and treated under the category of
alternative media. it also can be defined as a art of making up a story with something that sounds like a
premise but isn’t, and then spending the entire time writing about how your
unfounded premise would play out, if it had any basis, delivered via the world
wide web.
The
difference between this two media is on the mainstream media, they have their
own style and own channel in delivering news to public while in online
journalism, it only require blog and everybody can write. Besides that, on
mainstream media they have gatekeeper that will monitor them in spread
information to public while online journalism does not have it. The style also
difference because in mainstream media, their more highlights on formality. It
must follow the guideline and just not simply added what they want in the news.
In online journalism, there are not these things that the writer must follow.
The writer can freely write what they want without thinking the guidelines
because there are no guidelines in reporting news through online journalism.
What are
we going to discuss are why online journalism less credible compared to
mainstream media. This is because first, the information they write online is
from unreliable and sources that cannot be trusted. As I said before, everyone
can be a writer for online journalism and everything that they write cannot be
trust because we don’t know where they get news on certain issues.
Other than that, the online
journalism less credible compared to mainstream media because there are no
ethics in writing about any issues especially on blogs. Bloggers can write
anything and everything they want no matter if the word they are using is
harsh. Mainstream media have gatekeepers who will control and filter
whatever news before disseminating it to the audiences. This is crucial to
maintain the peaceful and harmony in a country.
In a nutshell, mainstream
media have their own audience and it reaches out everyone around the world. The
news deliver by mainstream media are more precise compared to online journalism
and that’s why mainstream media are more credible. As smart users, we need to
choose the right media to get information. This is important because we don’t
want to be influenced with this false news that could make chaos to our
country.
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