Bloggers are trying to challenge and defeat mainstream media
organisations since the existence of the internet,
due to the attention they enjoy from the
public. However mainstream media
organisations are known for objectivity within
the news production industry.
In the bid to make sure that professionalism within the
news production industry, Lagos lawyer and human right
activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has encourage the NUJ
and some other important bodies to return back to their
drawing board to let them check the
recklessness of the social media broadcaster
While noticing that the media profession is very
Relevant to the socio-political transformation of
every group and society.
“For me, anybody that is going to publish or broadcast
anything using online channel or source should have a
registered legally website and we must be able to
trace them. Technology has gone to the extend that
anybody just writing down anything as
website.
Similarly the Minister of Information and
Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, criticis the
recklessness of the bloggers in what he said
during the Annual National Conference and
General Meeting of the NIPR organize in Ilorin,
Kwara State, on Thursday, 27 April 2017.
According to the minister of information,
”today anybody with a phone and data is a
journalist”
Meanwhile the matter of professionals and
amateurs still remain in the news production industry,
prompting question like who are bloggers,
what are their experience of education, which area
Are they good at
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