Andrew Sullivan and Jeff Jarvis see the new news order hand in hand I believe. Both admit that news is changing rapidly, as Sullivan says a blogger must change his opinion or story “hourly” as more information comes out. Unlike the ways of old as Jarvis would say where the news came from the world, through a specific number of news organizations and reporters, and then out to the people, now anything that happens related to the news can go up immediately without any editing, revisions, or filtering of biases. Sullivan will attest to being part of Jarvis’ new press sphere as he is a significant blogger and has many followers who read and look forward to his opinion on a weekly basis.
Sullivan admits also that in the end when you are writing a blog, that you are actually writing about yourself. This comes back to the “me” factor as Jarvis mentions the way that news has become more of a personal matter. As we mentioned in class we have become the news in the sense that iPod’s, cell phones, laptops and all the other technologically advanced equipment we use are what make the news possibly in today’s world. Without these tools Sullivan would not be able to get the information he needs to write his blogs; which would mean he would not been able to spread his opinion out; and finally meaning he would have to wait for the main news source to give him his information for him to formulate an opinion.
Going back to the main point, the fact of the matter is that Sullivan supports what Jarvis is saying not only by saying it in his article that we read; but the fact that his article came out and he is able to speak the way he does is physical proof of his retaliation against traditional news sources. Nevertheless, Sullivan’s words, Jarvis’ diagram all point back to my opinion and the main factor for this whole debate; and that is that the news has transformed with the technology age. Now, the news is anything that anyone puts online that they believe is significant, even if it their dog going the bathroom in their car. The old news was the important headlines of the day, it varied from a presidential decision to a war overseas, and it shook the country and everyone paid attention to it. Now, anything is news and anyone can comment on it which I believe has diluted the quality of news stories that are now out in the world.
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I'm glad that you mentioned technology. That was missing from much of Jarvis's blog post. If we think about why "the way it was" has changed to "the way it is," technology becomes a leading factor.
ReplyDeleteI like how you included the "me" factor in this blog. I also like how you added the little bit about technology because it really is a key factor in how we spread news.
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