Recently, a photo showing the U.S. Airways Flight 1549 in New York City sinking and passengers standing on the wings of the plane in knee-deep water has made the news. The picture acquired so much traffic on the Internet that Twitpic was actually shut down for not being able to withstand the massive amounts of traffic it was receiving.

The picture was made using an iPhone, one of the most popular phones around and most certainly the publicity it is now getting for this picture will benefit Apple. On the other hand, we can’t really only rely on stories reported by amateurs as they don’t have any training and most of the times their “reporting” is very faded.

This is certainly living proof that we are naturally inclined towards communication and technology is offering us all sorts of possibilities of doing that. People are saying that Twitter is amazing and it might as well be technically amazing, but what matters is the people who use and give it the positive reputation. We are at a crossroads in what journalism really means and how a story is actually transmitted further on.
Traditionally, a reporter goes to the scene and reports on what he sees, a journalist writes and comments upon events and then his thoughts are published.

It now seems that technology lets everybody tell their own side of the story, and some versions are better than the others, but what is extremely fascinating is that as more unique the people are, the more special the story they tell is.