Water needs fire to be boiled

Kimberlyn Rodil JORN75
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Newspapers; general magazines and reviews; professional journals and newsletter; news magazines and magazine digests; radio and television --- they all boil down to journalism, the art of writing that clinches every thought and actions that have significance and interest to the people; the root of all what you have seen and read in pieces of paper that you were holding just today.

The division of different categories of Journalism like what I have said earlier brought me in a school of thought that perhaps helped me to find the answer to the question that lingered in my mind. Through this, I had an idea that electronic journalism is still journalism since radio and television are forms of media (one of the category of journalism) so as the Internet and if the former form of media is where journalism used to be applied at, why not apply it by means of Internet?

Yes, journalism on Internet is what we usually call electronic journalism. It is journalism, I believe, for all we knew that it is still form of writing. It may sound unfair for those who dream to become a journalist and yet they found out a fact that everyone can write and thought that they are genuine writers. But which really weighs heavily electronic journalism or the conventional one?

Though everyone could write anything and everything under the sun and could able to post it on any Internet browsers, verities that scare the nerve of every journalist and soon to be journalist, everyone should know that the ways of writing in conventional journalism should be still applied for the reason that it serves as the foundation of writing articles.

But how you will be able to write for internet articles through the ways of writing in conventional journalism? Of course, you have to study basic journalism know the elements, standards and the code of ethics. These were the things that an-internet-writer should consider. Everyone could write and that is an obviously fact. However, not everyone is entitled to become a writer because what you need is the knowledge, guts and ethics. Moreover, writing in a journalistic way is not that easy, you ought to strive hard to have a simple pair of eyes to look at your work.

Thus, the community must prioritize the traditional journalism for they all boils down in here.