Many events come and go before many citizens are aware of them. This is where journalism and photography come to play. Journalism and photography allow for current events in other parts of the world to be shown to the public for awareness. Some of these events such as the time during the Arab Spring, where revolutions and protests broke out across the Middle East and North Africa, allowed for citizens to get an idea of what is going on in that particular part of the country. A world without journalism cause much of the people to be in the shadow of the unknown. But journalism creates a chance for political impact. Journalism and photography will bring transparency and awareness to the public eye leading to protests and a need for change, …show more content…
(Spayd)” The work of journalism and photography keeps an important role of collecting information and sharing it with others. The shared knowledge that photographers and journalists provide allows for the public to assemble and have a voice.
The public whom are now informed through journalism and photography are often puzzled about the stories or photos, which causes protest events to develop. In the film “Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark” through the media we can see the repressed citizens of Bahrain wanting a change in their government. The citizens of Bahrain assembled together protesting for a new democratic government. With journalism reports from Al Jazeera, the world was now hearing their story. Countries around the world heard the cries of the Bahrain citizens wanting for a change. But with the protest, the Bahrain’s government was quick to suppress the pro-democratic activists. An NPR article “Bahrain: The Revolution That Wasn’t” Kelly McEver discussed, “Bahrain’s uprising was suppressed in a harsh crackdown. Thousands of people were rounded up, detained, and sometimes tortured…Several people died while in custody. (McEver)” Protests may lead to better outcomes, but in this instance the outcome lead to death of many Bahrain’s citizens.
With the effects of journalism causing protest events to occur, there is always pressure on government officials to listen to the public. The Schuster Institute for Investigative
Twenty-first century reporters fill the airwaves with “news” pertaining to facets of life entirely opposite of awareness and activism. When news regarding anything aside from the lives of celebrities or current pop culture does make the headlines, the story seems presented in a watered-down, somehow censored, fashion; leaving the reader asking more questions than they received answered. As the major methods of mass media become increasingly consumer driven, the great majority are presented with less mentally stimulating material called “news”. As a result, Americans are often less informed, and thus less willing to become involved in, political, social, and economic issues, nation and worldwide. Through the application of relevant and straightforward journalism, like that practiced by Ida B. Wells, the people of this country may be armed with the knowledge needed to have an effect on the events unfolding today that will affect tomorrow.
Journalists are very important in providing objective views of the world as a way to uncover justice. Journalists are the storytellers who represent the people whose stories are not always heard. Journalists, particularly those during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, were crucial in showing how daily life was in America’s cities.
Journalism, I used think was taking stories and publishing them in as many words as possible for the largest profit. I believed it was just sharing a story that only several hundred people would get hear of. However, the truth is that it has the power to reach the masses. It is the beacon of light in a night of despair, the force which highlights the grievances of the people, but most of all, it is a weapon of mass destruction with the potential to obliterate any hopes or aspirations. Journalism is a blinding light, yet also the darkness it produces.
Citizen journalism is essential to the discovery and cover of what
The world is very sensitive as to what is able to be published to the media. Back before the 21st century, humans were even more conscious about what was to be published. People want to escape reality by not allowing morbid things to be printed in their newspapers. By doing this, humans tend to be oblivious as to what is going on in the world. In reality, photojournalism is the best way to go about bringing news to citizens. However, with photojournalism comes risks.
The field of journalism is a necessity because there is always a story to narrate, and ultimately history that needs to be documented. Many fail to recognize the importance of journalist, their roles to communities nationwide and the life threatening risks the job may acquire. We often perceive the pros of journalism which is a good thing, but we tend to neglect what journalists may have to undergo to acquire the right facts and different parts of an important story. Journalists around the world have encountered dangerous moments in their careers where they had to report on stories that demanded integrating themselves into a threatening situation such as war. This statement definitely holds true to Journalism in Liberia during the civil war.
It was through this course that I realized that journalism was in fact alive and well, it was changing with the technology and the times, and now more than ever it matters. Journalism matters because of the journalist’s duty to the public. In many ways democracy depends on journalist. It is the journalists who inform the public on the “political environment,” report on the “actions and decisions of elected officials,”
The government is the head of a country, and the inhabitants of that country should have the ability to trust their leaders. The people interviewed in this book come from a variety of backgrounds, yet each and every one of them had the same insecurities about the government. Lupe, a very poor woman lost all of her savings because her son was a target of police extortion (Hellman 211). Josefina Valenzuela, one of the people interviewed in the book was a woman who worked several jobs in order to support her daughter and mother and still live comfortably. She talked about how certain events like subway accidents are not published in the media because journalists are not allowed to write about them
Broadcasters and journalists’ right to freedom of speech is restricted, because the government forces them to withhold information that is unfavorable to them or the other side of the story. This violates humans’ rights as the general public has the right to know the truth about the political, social and economic actions of the nation that they live in, rather than being deceived by their government of being tricked into doing things. The big issue with censorship is the fact that people of higher authorities start to use the word ‘censoring’, when in reality they are using propaganda to assure members of the public to be satisfied with governmental actions, and that the justified reasons for specific actions allow them to suppress the right to freedom of speech in such a small manner that it isn’t even considered violation. Governments use media to justify their actions by spreading the view that rights to freedom of speech need to be suppressed and violated for the ultimate protection of the population. For example, in the United States, after 9/11, the government justified their actions of spying into citizens’ emails and social activity, for the ultimate ‘national security’ of USA. Furthermore, to violate some basic human rights is to deny one of their fundamental rights, and dehumanize them. The denial of these rights has sprouted chaos in the population provoking citizens to be angry once realizing that they were
Journalism has a significant political impact; a story may not change the minds of all readers, but there could be a significance or a better understanding for a difference.
Lister magnifies the complexities of citizen journalism in “Blurring Boundaries” by recapping tragic events such as, 9/11 and the London bombings that signify the importance of shared photojournalism between citizens and journalists. More specifically, the article focuses on the “death of photojournalism” due to the notion that the digital age is allowing everyone to become a photojournalist. The article, non-judgemental and fair from both angles describes a paradigm shift from photojournalism as a profession (limited to the skills of qualified journalists) to something ordinary citizens carrying cameras/smartphones can perform.
Media has the power to determine how we perceive world events. Just as Happer and Philo say, “…they [the media] are key to the setting of agendas and focusing public interest on particular subjects, which operates to limit the range of arguments and perspectives that inform public debate (Happer & Philo, 2013). Society for years has relied on the media to inform us of what is happening around the world, and whether we like it or not, what they choose to show us or not show us affects our opinions. Since people don’t have the ability to be in these situations and see for ourselves, they must be dependent on someone else to inform them. We
Journalism today plays a big part in war. It presents the people of a nation with information about the war, casualties from the war, and other important occurrences. Ideally, journalism should be obtained and presented from a non-biased point of view, this meaning all sides of an issue should be covered equally, so that every group has their voice heard. Unfortunately, thanks to prejudice, nothing can ever meet up to the exact ideals of today’s world.
The media and the public have had a relationship that has existed for centuries. Through the media, people become aware of events and issues occurring around them. As a result, they make educated decisions. Therefore, the media serve as witnesses of the events happening within our societies and then report them to us. That said, could journalism have a significant political impact in our societies? It is through the media that governments and their citizens communicate. For instance, people communicate by protesting and voting, governments respond by amending the issues affecting the public. It is also through the media that potential political leaders gain recognition. Therefore, the answer is yes, because, journalism causes the spread
In this era, the popularity of citizen journalism has spread throughout all over the world. As a matter of fact, more and more people are starting to take benefit of content publishers. This can be seen in Television news, such as winter snow photos, traffic accidents or local sporting events. However, it leaves a question, what exactly is news anyway? What do you need to be a citizen journalist? What is its impact on today's fast-paced society? Basically, a lot of people think this is a great thing and it can be a good tool for promoting interaction between the media community and the community. There are pros and cons of citizen journalism, we need to face this issue critically and dialectically (Techopedia, 2017). On the one hand, citizen journalism has some benefits that professional journalism can not provide. Firstly, comparing with professional journalism, citizen journalism provides a wider range of news and fills the gaps in mainstream media. The main body of the dissemination of citizen journalism is ordinary citizens rather than professional journalists or professional media. People can through the Facebook, microblog,Twitter to publish news which happened around their life. Delicacy, beautiful scenery, sports events, entertainments, political commentary can be seen in Weibo, Twitter, Facebook and so on. Secondly, citizen journalism could stimulate the interest of audience. Most audiences enjoy reading