Citizen Journalism vs. Traditional Media

Citizen journalism falls into a broad spectrum of meanings. Citizen journalism consists of unedited, live footage and information. Some people feel citizen journalism is too real and unedited for the public view. The footage is usually filmed with less than average equipment, creating the film to be shaky or blurry; the sound quality is usually not good either.

People rely so much on traditional and even cyber media. Without traditional television or internet media, the public would probably be lost because that is where basic news comes from. The traditional media is also much quicker to broadcast news and footage than individual people filming news events. The quality of the footage is also much better with traditional media because of the high quality equipment used. The use of cyber media is increasing, but it is obvious traditional media is still the first choice in finding out information quickly.