Week Four

      This week was another informative week about journalism, politics, and social media of course. Starting off with my discussion question if social media was a good idea to use if I were running for my political campaign. I think that it absolutely would, social media is such an important part of our lives right now and it's the main way to get future voters' attention. Even this past debate they were using social media, like TikTok to gain voters. I learned the difference between traditional and citizen journalism, traditional is done by the professionals/people who work for companies like CNN or The New York Times, as they follow structured rules about fact checking. Whereas citizen journalism is where regular, everyday people report news using blogs, social media, or even videos; they do not have to fact check or follow rules so the information from them will be less reliable but often it spreads faster. I also enjoyed the videos of Katie Couric; she explains how quickly news on social media moves nowadays. This can be good because people get updates, but bad due to false information spreading.