BLOG NEWS TRAVELS FAST

"Out with the old, in with the new" has been the way our country has always operated.  Before newspapers, we wrote letters to deliver the news.  Lets be honest, no one writes letters anymore.  Well, lets be even more honest... people aren't reading the newspaper anymore either.

The newspaper industry is well aware of its death; only 19 % between 18-34 claim they even look at a newspaper.  Therefore, newspapers like CNN, and Fox News, can be accessed online.  Now a new element has been added to allow citizens to voice their opinion: The Blog.  Although the decline of the newspaper means less people are broadly informed about what's going on, blogs allow people to respond directly to issues that influence them.  And blogging is fast!

"Bloggers are not chewing at the news, they are spitting it out" yet, there is the issue of credibility.  Yes, anyone can go on and comment on an article and have a completely false interpretation of the truth, but thats the beauty about blogs, they are mainly opinion that lead to further research of an issue.  Online newspapers strive to get information out as fast as possible, and because breaking news evolves over time online organizations might not be fact-checking.  However, by advancing to the use of the blog people can go in and add what the initial writer might have missed.

The Huffington Post is an example of an internet newspaper that embraces the news blogs.  The co-founder Arianna Huffington created this website because she wanted to discover a formula that confronted the problems of newspapers entering the Internet era, saying it offers "immediate information about stories that interest readers".  The Huffington Post is more popular than all but eight newspaper sites, rising from 16th place.

This is merely the beginning of news traveling via internet.  Philip Meyer predicts that the final copy of the final newspaper will appear on somebody's doorstep one day in 2043.  That might seem far away, but times are changing and technology is only getting faster and more efficient. 

Is the newspaper dying effecting our democracy?  Yes it is! But it doesn't have to negatively effect us.  A democracy is directed by or for the people, so instead of having it be for the people, lets do it ourselves and use online newspapers and blogs to speak our minds about what is going on in our world.  

Online newspapers and blogs are more timely, interactive and allow users to read what interests them.  

If you still don't believe me, you can join these people who are still struggling to save the newspaper. 

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-Kylee Flister