New information resources and bad journalistic practice

Abstract

“I don’t know how we worked before Internet” Is something that journalist use to listen (and to declare) often. Using the World Wide Web is so habitual that we don’t remember how we were working when it isn’t exists.

Board of informatives of National Radio of Spain has appeared the need to debate about convenience of using social networks (like facebook or twitter) as information research saying they “are not strictly a source, but a channel across which to accede to particular or institutional sources” and therefore it is necessary to have a very special care with the information that comes to us across these routes.

It is natural that the new communicative realities are studied thoroughly because Internet as information research cause a lot of problems in media all around the world. It transforms the traditional scheme “Source-Journalist-Public” and democratizes the issuer’s paper of the communication placing to journalists in a crucial position: it is the moment to defend the professionalism, the business ethics and the classic journalistic practice.