As Journalism is dishing out less jobs, many students have turned to the internet for Solace. However is the new digital journalism wave all its cracked up to be? Many think not. Maybe that is from the older generation who have become stuffy about the younger years supplying them news; but I think it's with great validity that concern is drawn. In the article Ari Goldman says that falsity and little accuracy climb into news reporting today. I tend to agree. Those students that have no further experience outside of a classroom throw accuracy to the wind and with little editorial review post what others may consider real news. Call me old fashioned but the newspaper is produced through a hierarchy of review filtering out the bias and falsity that many online sites don't have the privilege of experiencing.
The new curriculum at ODU is beneficial in that it trains students how to accuratly investigate and post news to the internet in the same way they do in a print organization. Students must understand that by putting their names on any given work means you sign to that document that it is accurate to the greatest of your knowledge and that they can be held accountable for anything that is said or implied.
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