Friday, May 8, 2009

Citizen journalism straying

The purpose of citizen journalism is capture some interesting news on the spot by a camera from any ordinary citizens. You don't have to wait for the reporters and photographers to come down. By the time they do the freshness of the event would be lost. But now ever since some "portal" on the net sprung up, many people took on the action to take photos around them and post on the portal. Are these even considered citizen journalism? It depends. The current news of some boys pranks at others, boys pranks at some sushi eatery would be considered as citizen journalism because this is reporting some wrongs being done. Others like, not giving up seats in MRT, how people dress or how people sit, are being misused. How your dress or how you sit is not unlawful. To give or not to give up seats too is not required by law. Some comments posted think the poster is simply too kpo (busybody) as if they don't dress well mean the poster themselves is well dressed? There is a fine line in capturing something news worthy and something that is other people's privacy. To those who got captured in the pictures that is under kpo, they should report to police or sue the poster. Posters who wants to post as annonymous would not be any annoymous given how the internet works. Irresponsible posters need to know their action isn't any right to post pictures of others.

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