With the Internet, news is no longer the presentation of information by salaried journalists. Instead, in the case of Baghdad Blogger Salam Pax, news is compled by the newsmakers themselves.
This freedom on the Internet is a blessing and a curse. This new definition of news as a public, participatory project creates a reliability problem. One of the most important aspects of the definition of news is the idea that the information is being presented by a reliable souce. A career journalist has more to lose by twisting the truth than an anonymous blogger does.
The face of news is changing. Reliabilty will be the number one problem facing newcasts of the future, as though it weren't already a problem now.
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