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I have wondered the journalist take on social media playing such a large role in national events. I think it’s a great thing that they have accepted and utilize the people seeing the event first hand and the power of social media. However, I wonder if they divulged whether or not it actually makes their position harder than before social media because of the filtering out of sources and maintaining that 24/7 visibility while keeping credibility. The more panels I listen to on the topic, the more I enjoy they all stress that social media is not replacing good journalism. Students in journalism programs are tempted to think conventional journalism skills are a thing of the past just because journalists are also using social media. It’s simply a tool to enhance the skills.
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It seems it’s necessary to be aware of both the positive and the negative sides of Social Media. I agree with Clay Shirky that “there is no information overload, only filter failure.” This doesn’t mean to completely disregard social sites as sources, because throwing away such a large-scale global source would be the greater evil. Instead, on the journalism side we must remember to verify our facts and as consumers we need to step back and filter what we read.
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I do like the idea of social media and their revolutionary ways of delivering news. As seen throughout the Arab Spring, the amount of news content can be overwhelming. There’s also a thin line separating what can be considered news or opinion, Also, most of this “breaking” social media news are often written by ordinary people with no journalistic background. So i do agree with Jim Fredricks that better ways of filtering content should the ultimate priority when it comes to news and social media.
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Social media has changed the way so many of us gather our news, and we’ve had to learn how to wade through the good and the bad news. Clay Shirky’s quote about how “there is no information overload, only filter failure” is very true. Social media has worked its way into all of our lives and we are constantly bombarded about news, but in order to be good news gathers we need to learn to filter through the good and the bad instead of taking news at face value.