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Commentary Towards Online Journalism

              In today’s world, everything happened is shared throughout the internet especially on the social media and weblogs. This phenomenon has become crucial and people tend to make it more complicated and worse. It is beyond boundaries for the each individual to prevent the action of the certain parties. People are becoming more aware on every tiny or unnecessary things happened around us. Any gain interest action such as fighting, accident, and other social illness, is uploaded into the weblogs and social media.

          Online journalism has become part of the society. People tend to choose the social media as the medium to spread words, defamation, hatred and even planning on the riot as happened in United Kingdom. If we look into, there are plenty benefits of online journalism especially on solving or reporting the crimes, but at the same time the implications from it slowly damaging the reputation and image of the victim. People judge and sometimes misjudged that made the situation getting really bad.

          As an example, based on the video that has been presented, the issue is about an accident happened between two cars. Certain people might said that the Chinese guy who brought the baseball bat is provoking first while the others said another man who steals the baseball bat is the person to blame. Some are related it with the racism statement because both parties are Chinese. At last, both of them are fighting for no reason and the implications towards the society on turn into racism and hatred as well as representing Malaysia is an uncivilized country.

          Thousands of advantages of online journalism but there are also thousands of reasons that can make the situation worse. Media literacy and high thinking order skills is essential in preventing and making us to become better community and nation. It starts from each individual. Journalism is growing and it is inevitable as the internet continues to broaden the way beyond our expectation. The developments of journalism and spread of internet has created a new away of experience and opportunities for people to express themselves. #