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Written 2 years ago

I believe that in the future these news sources (blogs and alike) will gain more importance, the journalist will not longer be an unknown person, but turns into a person.
This personalisation is important, because it will be the main hold on to the truth.
Whereas we get lost in a web of information, not knowing what is true and what not, or what the sources are, this hold on to a person, from which you seem to know something, will become your reference, and you are no longer ready to beleive what the traditional media is telling you through their system of telexes.
As I am writing this, the first bloggers are allowed to offically be part of the Democratic National Convention hold in USA. Many journalists are surprised, but slowly the blogging world with its implications is becoming another standard in the internet and media world.
What is today a still no more than a strange word, will be common knowledge in short time.
A database of information is being written on personal blogs and as much pictures are being posted on as many blogs.
Some of them truthfully, others totally fiction.

Knowledge on subjects is no longer based upon what the news tells, but also on what google can give you on the subject, very often referring to blogs.
Other linkages, made into the blogging or found through search engines gives us more info on the matter, widening our view.
Recent numbers and researches tell us that people look on the web for news.
This knowledge might change the perception of news and images totally.
The internet is a source of news, and a new way of journalism will develop here.
Also photojournalism: When I speak of photojournalism as being dead, I am talking only about the concept of capturing a single image on a nitrate film plane, for publication in mass media. In the near future, visual stories will be told primarily through moving images and sound, on both on television and the web. The web will increasingly replace printed media. However, the role of the storyteller who can capture the events and people of our
time, and place them in perspective for our history, will only be enhanced. (Dirck Halstead )

It will be a daring mission, since the longer, the more information, the harder it gets to be able to make the differentiation between truth and lie.

(Hmmm didn't change so much)

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