Use of (New) media as a News-gathering Tool
By: Kashoo Tawseef
In the words of Allan, (2009), media has passed through a change where the consumers have choice of information to access to either to the traditional media with so many limitations or to the new media with easy access and adds that “the new-media model is horizontal, with the consumer of the information in the middle of a flow of information seemingly, the equal of every other bit.” (2009:215) The new media has positive effect on the way the recent events were covered related to Middle-East in press general and United Kingdom’s press in particular, in 2011 during Egypt uprising as compared to five years ago in Lebanon war-2006.
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