Black, White and Read All Over…Not Anymore.
In the past decade online news sources have taken over the way we receive our news. Newspapers have always been the main resource we obtain our news from. This news outlet has provided many jobs for our country. These jobs however, are suffering and in the midst of a recession and this country needs as many jobs as possible. When it comes to online news sources, although they provide information fast and provide it as it happens, are they always reliable? There a few sources that have reliability on the web however, the reason for their reliability is because they are associated with a newspaper.
Online news sources have grown very rapidly over the decade and continue to grow. Our society has adopted this way of obtaining news because it is fast. We live in a fast-paced culture and the convenience of clicking a mouse and receiving information has overtaken our ability to judge what is reliable or not. The information comes so fast and is always changing it’s hard to decipher if what is being taken in is truly legitimate. Unlike newspapers, we do not know where this information is coming from. People can rely on newspapers for truth and credibility.
Newspapers are a part of our economy as well. Without newspapers many people would be left jobless. The market is already suffering because of the internet overtaking the news. Printed news sources such as the New York Times, USA Today, and our own Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have online websites where readers may go to view news. If these newspapers stopped printing completely it would be a drastic change for our society. Our economy, in the midst of a recession, needs as many jobs as possible. This would cut many jobs and be devastating for people all over. Not only would it affect people in the business but also other businesses. Those who have ads in the newspaper would suffer. The newspapers provide coupons as well which the public would not be able to use.
Our democracy would also suffer. Right now people are able to receive their news from either online sources or printed sources. The ability to choose is a right for people. If people choose to use the internet as their personal source for news then they may. If people choose to read a newspaper for news they may do that as well. If that right is taken away and people are only allowed to view online news sources what would that do to our democracy? How people obtain their news is their decision however, if there is no option then objectivity and in a way values would be thrown out with the printed sources.
Online news sources have become a fast and simple way for people to obtain information and news. However, this has made the newspaper industry suffer. If newspapers are eliminated from society than jobs will be lost, reliability will be diminished, and people’s right to choose where they receive their information from will be eliminated. Although having both is good idea, the past and the future, newspapers need to make a comeback in our society.
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Brittany,
ReplyDeleteYou make some good points in your post. I like that you point out that people like online news because it is so fast but that how can you tell if your getting reliable news? I also like that you point out that there are some websites that are credible and that they are tied into newspapers. This goes along with the reading by James Potter about media literacy, with how can we tell if the news we are receiving is truthful.
I also agree that it is bad that people are losing jobs due to the failure of newspapers, but if newspapers added an online version that could in turn add jobs for people to write articles for the online site only and to edit the online site. I also like that you show that credible newspapers have online versions for people to read if they don't want to read the paper version.
I also agree with you that having both versions of news is a good idea because the online news is not going to go away anytime soon so it be good for newspapers to embrace the online transition. But i also agree that newspapers should not be completely wiped out because that would cause to many lost jobs. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has switched to a completely online newspaper at www.seattlepi.com so some of the people that worked for the paper lost their jobs.
Finally i agree that it is a good idea for there to be both online and print version of the news because people should be able to choose where they get their news. But that newspapers should try to embrace the online revolution because online news is now going anywhere.
Brittany,
ReplyDeleteI think that this was a very good post. I like a lot of the points that you make in this post and the way that you describe the points that you made. I would have to say that i agree with you on a lot of what you said. I think that online news sources are good but that newspapers still need to be a large part of our society.
I think that the economy would suffer a lot to if newspapers were to be eliminated completely as well. I think that point you made about how are economy needs all of the jobs possible is a great point, because in this recession getting rid of newspapers would screw a lot of people over. I think that newspapers websites are a great place to get reliable information, but i just don't think its the same as sitting down and reading the paper.
I also think that reading the news should be a personal choice between internet and print as well. Me personally i love reading the paper. I do read news online a lot because of the convenience of it, but i tend to find a lot of misleading stories online and a lot of false news online because of the rapidness of changing in stories that occurs online. With the paper, i feel like what I am reading is true all of the time and that the information is much more credible.
I don't think that newspapers should be eliminated for a lot of the reasons that you said in your post. I think that a lot of people would be very upset with the newspapers being eliminated, especially the elderly people who don't know how to use the newspapers. I think the system that we have in place right now could work, but print needs to be an important part of the news.