I have heard so much on how depressing it is for the newspaper to be going down hill. Independent, publicly traded American newspapers have lost forty-two per cent of their market value in the past three years, according to the media entrepreneur Alan Mutterm in an article in the New York Times. I am in a way somewhat happy that this is happening. The newspaper has always been something I have seen my parents read in the morning with their cup of coffee. It provided the start to their day. This is fine great and wonderful, but now that sales are declining, it only puts more pressure on our generation to come up with a new way of getting news to the public.
Aside from how my parents get their news in the morning, I get it for free from my computer each morning to start my day. The internet has been a huge threat to the American Newspaper, but you have to provide news where most of the public is going to view it, therefore the internet. Yet, the internet has its drawbacks, they may be able to get news up within seconds, but then it raises the question, how much of it can be true, did the publisher thoroughly check their facts?
The end of the newspaper could be what gets our country out of this recession. If our generation could step up, and find a new standard medium in which news could be accessed by a large audience, yet in a technologically advanced way, we could have a whole different industry.
This world will always need educated people and great writers. All we need is to find a new medium in which these writers will be able to express themselves and the news in a new way. I don't look at the failing newspaper as a negative thing, but I think about the endless positive possibilities of what could be once it is gone.
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I know that when I was growing up things were similar for me. I'd get up, and be able to read the newspaper that my parents had finished reading earlier.
ReplyDeleteSince then, my parents have discontinued their subscription to my hometown newspaper and having been getting new elsewhere such as the local television news and of course, the internet, which is the reason for the demise of the newspaper.
With the advent of internet news, there has become a new way of getting information. It's a more amateur way for people to get their daily information from sports to news to weather. This is called blogging. In this article (http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/10/is-blog-reading-mainstream.html) the author talks about how blogging has become mainstream
Blogs can be fun to read but at the same time, it can be tough for one to interpret what they are reading when they are not familiar with the author as Silverblatt explains it. He says that people who anchor televsion news are seen as celebrities while the people who are just as important to presenting news like directors or editors remain anonymous.
It will be interesting to see if people start reverting to the old ways of reading a physical newspaper or stay on the path we are now of reading news and blogs online everyday.