Covering Disasters: From Katrina to CA Wildfires

It is apparent to me in reading each of these stories about media coverage of these disasters, that the growth of techonology is rapid and fierce. There were no reports of people blogging or twittering or doing any type of online citizen journalism in the wake of Katrina in 2005, but in the wake of the CA wildfires in 2007, that WAS all the media, online!
What went wrong with the media coverage of Katrina was all the reporting of the sensationalist rumors,not facts, just to report something. I really like this quote from Hugh Hewitt, it makes you think.
"If all of that amount of resources was given over to this story and they got it wrong, how can we trust American media in a place far away like Iraq where they don't speak the language, where there is an insurgency, and I think the question comes back we really can't. "

10 reasons for a bright future in Journalism

I think the first reason is the best reason.
1.) More access to more journalism worldwide.


What a great gift! Now instead of relying on our American media sources to provide international news, ( what little they provide) we can go right to the international source and get their local angle of the story.

Global education is right at your finger tips.

The next best reason, I believe, is that more voices are apart of the news conversation.

This leads to more fact checking and more amateurs helping professionals in investigations.

Never ending stories are also a great reason for a bright future in journalism. Rarely in traditional print media do stories get followed up closely and can spend a lot of space really developing a story. In the online world, you can do that, and easily.