The-minute news

We are currently in a period in which the information comes fast and from many places. As something important happens in the world we learned in an instant. Have appeared, the Internet, places where the information is updated every minute. For example, with all that is happening in Japan, you can get into many web pages of newspapers (La Vanguardia, the world, the country ...) and go following the events that are happening. These new technologies are still developing. Currently only used when major events occur such as those occurring in Japan or the draw for the champions. Which could be followed live or when events of interest to an important part of a population (football matches of basketball ...).

This technology allows the reader to have all the information in their hands and when he wants, but how is this information? I think the problem is that information is going very fast. Journalists do not have time to reflect on what they publish. Contents hardly studied. The information lacks of context so often misunderstood. I think that going to impact, (will send the information as they develop the facts) loss of cohesion of the news. There is a big mass of information, but, to what extent is it real? You have so much information, so many views that do not know what to believe. It is also a very common phenomenon that runs lies on some news. This is very common in soccer news (signings, coachingchanges ...), why is this happening? Often it is because the journalist in question sends the information published as it arrives. They don’t wait for verification, not worried that you are transmitting falsehoods, only concerned to update the information, get to publish the news before another newspaper. The society is increasingly uninformed as to have as much information at the end do not look almost nothing and looking not know whether to believe it. A phenomenon that is currently occurring in the population is that people will only look at what interests him, ignoring the rest of the information.

Not try to criticize of the media, all I am saying is that journalism is undergoing a crisis of values. I think the purpose of journalism is the study of an event, this analysis, and subsequent transmission of this phenomenon, trying to be as objective as possible. Journalism should try transmitting a truth. Today, this hardly happens. Many journalists do not stop to think about what they are doing. A clear example of this is what happened recently with the sports newspaper AS. Modified image (erased a player to give the reason the referee had blown for an offside that was not) and then even dare to say that it was a computer mistake...

Anyway, I think that journalism is entering a deep crisis in which anything goes, losing its purpose: the transmission of truth.