iW VIDEO | Is Modern Journalism About Truth?

Within this video Arianna Huffington raises a positive of the move to online media that is one not commonly brought up when dealing with the new media. She views that online news forms greater advocate for honesty in journalism due to the updating, correcting and disproving of untrue information in a constant manner. As we expect news 24/7 Huffington assumes that this will mean further examination of topics, and thus we are more likely to gain the truth and journalists will therefore become more accountable for the work they produce.

She also notes that it is valuable as we now have a wider number of sources available to us, a factor of new media that is valuable for both consumers and journalists.

Christopher Buckley also briefly brings up mindframe that younger generations are in when it concerns the media, talking about his 16 year old son who has developed a suspicion of media and a type of perception that when he was that age would never have thought twice about. This shows that generations now are going to come into media consumption with differing views and ideals, and also with a lot more experience of new media, and this must be noted by journalists to ensure they are able to meet their audiences.