Online Journalism

1. Introduction

Recently, the online journalism in the Internet the platform for the public to share news and current issues of social, political, economic, entertainment and global issues. In general, online journalism in the Internet accompanied by various segments of society such as politicians, businessmen, economists, educators, students and individuals interested in this field.

For example, we can access the news or current issues in the Internet by simply typing the relevant keywords on specific search engines. In this way, users can easily read the news and issues in the web site. As evidence, blogs such as ‘blogspot' and ‘Xanga' accompanied by those who wish to share the news in the Internet by uploading their own original writing or copied from others.

As the online journalism does not have guidelines set forth in law, journalism in the internet continues to grow rapidly growing like mushrooms after rain. Within the last few years, online journalism in the Internet began to dominate the lives of our community. With online journalism, internet, people are free to upload, comment, share ideas, express their sense of lack of faith and express their views easily. This is the main action of our society that prefers to use online journalism in the Internet.

However, online journalism in the Internet is not a channel that has credibility when compared with the mainstream newspapers. In fact, news and issues posted on the internet is an unstable and highly valued source of bias because of doubtful authenticity. For example, some artists are victims of sexual materials to individuals who are not responsible. There are pictures of those racy spread in the internet. This will indirectly embarrass the artist even published pictures are not facts because there are some individuals who simply believe in the validity of these pictures. Indirectly, online journalism, providing easy access to users that unethical behavior is to make the malicious envy, and it caused problems for many people.

Totality, online journalism in the Internet has less credibility than the mainstream press because of language elements which are applied in the internet is poor. The language used is to use languages that are short, slang language, spelling and sentence structures that do not conform to the law of the Malay language. Ironically, the wrong use of language will cause readers to be influenced and apply it in daily life. Worse, the wrong use of language is used by young people and destroys the dignity of our country's official language.

Therefore, we should not forget the mainstream newspapers are still the main source of news in the country as well as globalization. Of course, mainstream newspaper run by those who are professionals in the field of journalism. They undertake the role as a journalist has been chosen officially by