#RealNews. From Twitter, Facebook Tumblr and many other social networks have found a way to connect others together. The results of this have been good and bad. When a nation is being is being denied the privileged to express themselves by their government and a third party steps in to give them a voice; this is a good thing. When someone plops down in front of their computer and types hateful slurs across the internet; well this is bad.
Something that may become an issue in the future is social media becoming a main source of news. I'm not saying that someone should not go onto to Facebook or Twitter and find out about things around the world what I am saying is that the broadcast news should not do so. Where a single person chooses to recieve their information is their choosing, but too often the media is using celebrity Tweets and Post and passing them off as real news.
This is not journalism at all. This is lazier than typing them into Google. News broadcasters are constantly reporting on words posted by people on the web about topics that most of the time don't pertain to the artist. I don't believing I care on Vanilla Ice take on the bombing on the Gaza Strip or any celebrity at all.
Dave Chappell put it best "I wasn't sitting around after 911 wondering where is Ja Rule (rapper) at." I get it some people may believe that celebrities are special because they hopefully have some sort of talent, but that doesn't make them credible at all. Until I see a degree from Waka Flocka Flame (rapper) on intercultural study I don't need to know who he's voting for. Please news broadcasters stop reporting on tweets and post as though it took some degree of investigation to do so #ChannelChange.
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