Who Can You Trust?

It's no unknown fact that technology has drastically shaped and changed the world in a vast number of ways, but at what cost? Journalism is one but many things that have been by affected by the inclusions of technology. By definition, journalism is the process of writing or gaining information that can then be made available for the general public; in a sense, that can be done by anyone, and that's a big problem. Who is it that you can trust to get your information?

In my case, most of the news that I get or at least become aware of is from Twitter, and then followed by television. This is partially thanks to how the search engine in Twitter works as topics are set up with a hashtag; the more content there is in the hashtag, the greater the quantity of the news. This helps for me if I want to know something on the fly since anyone at any time can write up a tweet to briefly describe the issue or news at hand. However, I am well aware that that's not always reliable.

For your average day-to-day citizen, there's no real repercussion when it comes to delivering news; anyone can do it and can create it in any manner they so choose. Clickbaiting has become quite a regular thing in the current world since certain titled web pages or articles can be used to interest you into reading their product, but it could end up displaying incorrect or incomplete information.

Journalism might not necessarily be dying, but it is being changed in such drastic ways that completely deviates to what journalism once was, making it seem like traditional journalism is dead. I think traditional journalism will continue to suffer as the years go by since we live in a technology-driven world; people will continue to discover or reinvent new technology so that it can be applicable in everyday situations. The general basis of journalism will never die, but will just be redefined.