Thursday, September 20, 2012

Change is inevitable


"From the day when reporters used the typewriter to the introduction of the computer, journalists viewed this as the death of thinking, as they tried to fight the growth of online media which has become the main source of information".
Zimbabwe generally has a small media industry which is dominated by the state media and a few privately owned media organizations. 
However online news websites and activists have sprung up, harnessing the democratic potential of the internet to champion change.
According to 2011 Zimbabwe All Media Products and Services Survey , 1,223,947 people in Zimbabwe who have internet access, either at home, the office, Internet Cafe or by mobile
 The biggest benefit offered by the internet is information and in Zimbabwe we can say information is spreading very fast, at times before the media gets hold of it.
Breaking news is being posted on various social media platforms which means that people are no not sorely relying on print media
Internet has allowed the media to do research which was quite difficult but nowadays you can find any type of information on any subject with the help of the search engines like Yahoo and Google.
However the problem that has come the internet is that no one is playing the gate keeping role.There is absolutely no censorship of information that is posted or published on the internet. Pornography for instance is  harmful for children but no one controls that.
Change is inevitable and in the next 20years the internet would have taken over the role of media.

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