After reading Jarvis’ “The press becomes the press-sphere” I am a supporter of what he has to say about the current news media and the new definition of the press. It is hard to believe, however that we have changed the integrity and type of news media that we get now a day. With the evolution of technology we have changed the way reporters, and we ourselves get news and information related to or in reference to some sort of event happening in the world. As Dr. Mark Bauerline said yesterday in his lecture here at the University, the world was the news, the news was given to everyone in the 60’s and 70’s by Walter Cronkite.
As I said before, I support this new model for the new press-sphere as we can see that the news has evolved much of the past two to three years. Rather than getting everything from the television or finding out about different events in the newspaper, now anybody can get on a social networking site or one of the news cable sites and find a vast amount of knowledge available to read. The sources for these stories are not centralized like it used to be to one news source. Now anyone can send in information or as the new phase in modern day news is known as the U-Report. Anybody who has a camera and sees something related to the main story affecting the country today is a valuable witness and can send in their aspect of whatever is going on. Earlier when the news first started being published it was one reporter and his camera man out in some foreign land or whatnot and getting the only images that will be seen around the world.
The news is constantly changing; and as much as I enjoy having multiple news stories come at once every hour; I still miss the old ways of the news where there was one evening news report about everything going one without any bias and then it was done for the night. With the new age in the press-sphere, comes the burden of multiple viewpoints that most likely don’t represent the news story as it should be and instead is propaganda. As much as I miss the old style of reporting and news stories including their sources; I agree with Jeff Jarvis 100% that the press-sphere has changed and it has destroyed all ways of old.
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I liked your comment about decentralization of news. I've thought the same thing although I didn't cover that aspect in my post this time. You have a really clear writing style and it is easy to follow your train of thought. I liked reading your post a lot!
ReplyDeleteI appreciate that you're often connecting the work of this class to outside books and lectures you've attended. This one by Bauerline sounds interesting. I think that is when the university is at its best, when it enables connections across sites of learning.
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