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Journalism: A Study In The New Media

INTRODUCTION
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is taking the world by storm, it is nevertheless, an increasingly powerful tool for participating in global markets; promoting political accountability; improving the delivery of basic services; and enhancing local development opportunities. The Information and Communication Technologies Task Force monitored by UNDP, through its core activities, working groups and regional nodes, has successfully contributed to advancing the multi-stakeholder discussion on Internet governance, enabling environment and other high-profile policy issues; added to progress in measuring, monitoring and analysing the impact of information and communications technologies (ICT) on the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals; further supported and promoted collaborative initiatives at the regional, subregional and national levels and provided significant input to the formulation of a comprehensive United Nations information and communications technologies strategy. It is also contributing towards making the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society a success.
To these development scholars, adoption of ICT means development for African communities without mindful of the fact that this incursion is highly capable of eroding our basic tenets and traditional values, one of which is the conventional media.
At the threshold of this fairly new millennium (2000 A.D.), there was a sporadic turn-around in the existing branches of the global media. This catapulted the world into a new information order that forcefully attempted to erode the traditional media. This turn-around made the traditional media's dictators and gatekeepers to loose their hold. The sub – editors, and editors who control what comes into the news, and by implication, what the people are being exposed to, could no longer reserve the right. This is because the coming of the new media has brought with it another means of exposing...