The key to producing information is accessibility and newspapers just don’t have it. Our generation, the “microwave society,” needs information to be received quickly and conveniently. Most people are not concerned with “day-old” news, they feel it is pointless, irrelevant, and of course untimely, which causes them to resort to internet for current news.
But have we ever thought about the cost of convenience? Just like drive-thru meals at McDonald’s sacrifice taste, we are sacrificing accuracy via internet. Just think…How can internet outlets get a story, gain facts, conduct interviews, check for accuracy, edit, and post the article online within a short period of time? To me it seems like it is impossible, and I believe that newspapers have more time to gain accuracy.
The internet is a storage system that contains “the world's information,” and because it has so much information it easy to “get lost” or distracted. This song and this video made me think if it is really wise to try to gain newsworthy information when you can venture to another
*article,
*news source,
*or pop-up ad at just a click of a button? Or the internet just another distraction?
Internet has increased and shaped the way we view journalism. Journalism has become accessible for everyone and allows for the increase in democracy. Citizen journalism has caused everyone to be able to speak their minds about political and social issues through blogs and even social networks such as facebook and twitter.
Before there was television or internet there were newspapers, and everyone, within a certain proximity received the same stories and current events going on. But, now with the rise of online newspapers and broadcast we can easily learn about national and global issues. I think this is definitely a positive change, but I think that by a lot of people gaining their news from different sources has caused the idea of unity to be lost.
---Allesha Gilbert-Ewing
For your comment about accuracy, you should look into this article:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1971409,00.html
In short, Demand Media (demandmedia.com) has come up with a way to provide content for several news agencies and websites (including one of my personal favorites cracked.com) and has relatively high standards for who can write for them and is rigorous about fact checking. I'm not saying their method is perfect (it's been referred to as a digital sweat shop), but they are def. setting up a pretty good model for the future.
Also, studies have shown that people are prone to adapting to filtering out deception and that they are learning to do that in a digital environment.