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Is Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp, etc.) a replacement of journalism?

All the respondents were of the opinion that social media is not the replacement of mainstream journalism as journalists follow a code of conduct and ethics, and they are professionals knowing all the norms, and they know what is to be shared with an audience as news. In contrast, anyone can share any nonsense on social media.

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Today, journalism and morphed and formed into a type of writing that anyway can create. The simplest forms of it, for example twitters, can be sent out in less than a second and only include 140 characters. Journalism has moved from it’s organized and old format of newspaper to a new format that anyone can easily create.   The way we use social media and journalism today impacts what people read and how they read or listen to news. Consider politics. Political parties and candidates bank on news tv stations, such as CNN or FOX to get their updates on how the election is going. Unbeknownst to many, both of these news platforms are on opposite sides of the political parties. If you tune into CNN, you will get a completely different view of a republican candidate than you would on FOX, and vise-versa. They are also impacting what the reader sees. This type of controlling what people read and hear has caused a lot of mis representation and information that has been broadcasted through journalism. People take that information and think that is the truth, because that is the only thing they actually see or hear about. This does, on the other hand, appeal to the people that are actually interested in the same things as the platforms show, making people more willing to go back to their platforms