Jeff Jarvis (might I add that he has a wonderful last name) makes a couple points that I strongly agree with. First, I like how he recognizes that it isn’t just the reporter that is giving us the news anymore. There are countless other ways to view one story, either through official documents, eye-witness accounts, or even through the reader(s). The news is no longer left up to a group of people who will decide what should be published or not- well it is in some respects, but there are so many other ways one can obtain their news in today’s world.
I also like how Jarvis notes that the old news is in more of a linear format where today’s news is in more of a sporadic and diverse format. In the old news, you have your reporters who get the story, get it on paper, and then send it out to people who are interested in current events. I today’s news, however, there are many factors that play into the way receive our news. Links give the reader the ability to follow a story deep to its roots to things like official studies or government documents. Archives that are available allow a reader to compare a story or do their own research.
By reading this blog post, I’m now starting to realize how diversified our press system is becoming. We are now able to look at four different newspapers online to get the same story and within each of those articles we are able to dig deeper than ever before. This is what I love about this system. No longer are we restricted to the one report; but we are able to conduct our own research and make our own inferences from a current event rather than have the reporter do that for us.
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