opinion| Emma Rowe
Is Journalism dying? My greatest aspiration in life is to become a journalist. However, it is difficult to hold onto that dream while it slowly slips away. In today’s world, journalists are struggling with our new and improved digital age. Newsrooms have declined with fewer people relying on print to get their news.
Our lives have benefited greatly from the media, but it has also introduced new problems such as false information. As technology advances, journalism perishes. More and more people each day rely on social media for their news. Yet, more fabricated information has presented itself.
The media can fill you with endless information. Except a little percentage of that information is lethal. Most of that information is known to be “fake news.”
The media has made it easier for unreliable sources to spread the desired news. This is stripping away the core values of journalism: accuracy, independence, impartiality, humanity, and accountability. A journalist’s responsibility is to be accurate and honest in their work.
I don’t think journalism is dying, its solitary concept is. These five core values are what I stand for as a future journalist and will take with me alongside my career to prove we can redeem the true principles with our new and improved way of journalism.
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