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 Characteristically, this new prototype of Journalism is definitely more democratic, as it allows for the participation and involvement of many. 
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 It is also less bland as its captures the many absurdities and contradictions of society as we know it. 
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 In this sense, "Citizen Journalism" permits access to content which may have been off limits in the past. 
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 But what EXACTLY is the role of journalism in a modern democracy like ours?
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 Writer Walter Lippman and Philosopher John Dewey once hotly debated about role of journalists in a modern Democracy. 
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 Both scholars had opinions and theories that were very contradictory to the other, and not-surprisingly, they were unable to reach a compromise. 
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 LIPPMANN argued that the role of a Journalist should be limited to that of a median for information between the general public and policy making elites.
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 He believed that the people of his time (the 1920's) were too pre-occupied with the hustle and bustle of their daily lives to even bother to be concerned about public policy.
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 In Lippman's Eyes, }{\f36\fs20\insrsid10108201 the Journalist's job was to }{\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 act as a watchdog over the elites and then to inform the public of what the elites were doing. 
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 DEWEY On the other hand was a strong believer that the notion that the best ideas arise from discussion in the public forum. 
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 Which is why he argued that the role of a Journalist was to enable the public and policy making elites to engage themselves in progressive discussion.
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 For Dewey, the onus rests upon the shoulders of the Journalist himself/herself to go above and beyond the obligations of traditional journalism. 
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 For Dewey, the Journalistic model laid out by Lippmann was kept the public less-intutitive and uninformed by placing them at the bottom of the information chain. 
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 A major recurring theme that I kept seeing amongst the scholars that I was reading up upon, was the fact that they all believed that the existence of Journalism itself was an indicator of a true democracy. 
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 In a nutshell, they kind of regarded journalism as the concrete example of freedom of expression in all of its con}{\f36\fs20\insrsid10108201 c}{\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 rete glory.
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 These scholars also collectively shared the belief that the open and often revealing ideas transferred by journalists to the public, is PRECISELY what separates western democracies from other democracies.
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 The last po}{\f36\fs20\insrsid10108201 int I have before we finish this}{\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863  webinar for today, is that the first and foremostly important aim of a journalist is towards the TRUTH. 
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\f36\fs20\cf1\insrsid12673863 And Finally }{\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 And I confess to thinking of journalism as the social equivalent to a medical diagnosis, Thi
nk of journalism as a kind of early warning system -- iceberg spotting in the choppy waters of democracy.
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 Thanks for Attending and hopefully you'll find the links provided below somewhat useful.
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\f36\fs20\insrsid12673863 Cheers.
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