Citizen Journalism

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At the beginning of this century new kind of media showed up to the public, which is the Citizen Journalism. Citizen journalist is a person who works alone from his house by his phone or his personal pc to get the news and publish it by using blogger or social media like Facebook or Twitter. While Citizen Journalism helps society by giving variety and good kind of information, it still have lacked freedom because of the government and traditional media. Usually Governments do not like support the Citizen Journalism because it is difficult to be controlled. also it voice kind of news that governments do not like, so governments trying to put restriction on Citizen Journalism. On the other hand, governments may like to support a traditional media for many reasons one of them it could be easy to controlled, but what is the traditional media. Traditional media is an organization that has a group of professional people who study the media or they have been in the media for a long time. Although there are many people think the citizen journalism do not have the right to write and publish the news, I think citizen journalism need more freedom to write and publish news for three reasons: they can publish news in speedily way, voice all kind of people opinion and can cover news that can not be covered by traditional media.
The first reason, citizen journalism should have the right to write and publish the news is because they can publish the news faster than traditional media. For example, when hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans in Aug 23,2005, in minutes citizen journalism posted a video and pictures of the devastation before any traditional news organizations. In facet the traditional news organization reported New Orleans news by ...

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...ple, in 2008 CNN news publishes news that taken from citizen journalism which is COE of apple have a heart attack and that let the apple company lose money.
To sum up , as we can see citizen journalism have a great advantages for our society . They cover and bring news that we could not find it in traditional media. In addition to that citizen journalism present new side of the media, which is let any one shear his opinion and show the other side of opinion to understand. Also, they voice all kind of opinion and giving a chance for all people to share their opinion. In addition, in the future as people we can distinguish between the true and the fake news because we going to have a lot of variety of sources. Also, we going understand the other aspect that traditional media do not offer it For these reasons I support citizen journalism and I hope to get they right.

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