Is Journalism Obsolete? Thoughts

Article: http://gigaom.com/2011/09/02/is-journalism-as-we-know-it-becoming-obsolete/

Since non-journalist can do it just as easily as a journalist can, what makes a journalist a journalist? Why are they different? Is there even a difference?

Journalism – Fundamentally about a spirit of inquiry, of curiosity, of wanting to make sense of things.

Everyone gets their news in their own way. The way to get news has changed and it will keep changing. Soon enough, we will stop paying people to get news for us. Then I reread the article and thought, how would people get the source? If we don’t pay people, how are we going to learn something about other things. I mainly thought about celebrities. Weird, paying people to do more research/creep on other people. Just so that fans and other people will know what’s going on in their life. Isn’t sad that we are more interest in the lives of others then our own? Nonetheless, if we didn’t pay people to do what they do, it would one be very VERY illegal. So, if there weren’t journalists who did their research, then the general public would just have to hope that celebrities would like to share their personal life with everyone.

I don’t think journalism is becoming obsolete, but merely adjusting and changing with the times. Nothing is the same as it was ‘back in the day’ everything is different. We aren’t the same as we were years ago, so why should the way we receive our news stay the same. Everything is moving forward and journalism is too. Everyone is a journalist without even realizing it. Saying that I don’t think the people who retweet, repost, or share something they’ve learned is a journalist, but someone who is the first to hear it or see something happen and directly report it. I feel is a journalist, we all have a bit of a journalist inside of us, but then again it could just be natural human nature of wanting others to know. If this were the case all journalists are created by chance. Other then that, I just don’t think journalism is becoming obsolete, but rather adjusting and keeping up with the world.