USA Today is an online news source that comes to my mind that also is a major national print publication. USA Today is sent to many homes across the United States, and also with technology today can be read online too. To be completely honest, I believe that online reading is so much easier than print, but it also has negative aspects of it as well.
While looking through the homepage of USAToday.com they seem to categorize the news by most popular and the top news. A positive part of online reading compared to print news is that many online media reading sources use “info. Snacking.” They use the title that links you to the article, therefore the reader does not have to read everything, but pick and choose what interests them. USA Today also uses a variety of multimedia to help cover all of the interesting articles. They use videos and different links that will give more information to cover that article. When reading the USA Today print at home, this seems to be a problem. Print media can only be viewed from what the newspaper has chosen to be in the . Clicking to other links is obviously not going to be able to happen in a print media.
Personally, I believe that watching videos and being able to link to other material is very resourceful and helpful. Sometimes hearing something is easier to understand than reading something. For an example, the video showing the Fargo flood is more meaningful to watch because you actually can see what these people are going through. Sometimes writers can have a hard time describing something, such as a disaster in words; therefore by having online media, they can do both.
I also believe that online sourcing is easier and more convenient. USA Today uses RSS, which allows an email to be sent of the latest news updates. This is very beneficial because the reader does not have to visit the website every time and can get the news right to their own email. This can not happen whenever your reading the newspaper.
Don’t get me wrong I do believe sometimes online media can be overwhelming, sometimes a video will not work, or words will not display on the computer screen. Other times they have so much in archives and in their present news, that you can find yourself getting lost in the site. While reading a newspaper this would not happen and it’s pretty hard to get overwhelmed from an everyday newspaper. Overall, with technology today I believe the obvious statement is that it is easier and more efficient to read online media sources to get more information from more than one perspective. The different multimedia that is used on the USA Today site already makes it better than its newsprint.
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
News War A Fitting Title
Frontline's documentary News War talks about the transition reporting news has made in the past several years. In the chapter “Info Snacking” they argue that the reporting of hard news has fallen to the wayside as reporting has become opinionated or more entertainment based. They argue that when cable television first came along it was to report hard news twenty-four hours a day, but with the amount of competition today it has turned from traditional reporting to opinion based commentary. Walter Isaacson former CEO of CNN argued that cable news stations wanted both opinion based reporting but also news reporting and that strict news reporting should come from media outlets like Time Magazine and CNN. Frontline argues that CNN has become opinionated commentary and simply pass on rumors by showing footage of a CNN news anchor introducing a story with an opinion and showing a clip of CNN’s coverage of Anna Nicole Smith’s death. Former CBS anchor Dan Rather argues that news reports today have taken out the sense of public service associated with television news coverage.
The chapter transitions from its argument of hard news versus opinionated reporting to the argument that television news broadcasts will have to one day be put online as is the case with the most popular cable news show 60 Minutes. 60 Minutes offers a variety of hard news stories and lighter pieces highlighting celebrities or sports personalities. As with many news shows, 60 Minutes’ audience is aging, so the show’s Executive Producer Jeff Fager teamed with Yahoo.com to create a space where segments from the show and never before see footage were just a click away and provide more links to more content of the same nature. Fager argues that this attempt to gain revenue is in its early stages and that it’s too early to tell if this attempt has brought more viewers to the actual 60 Minutes broadcast. Google CEO Eric Schmidt argues that being online is the future, but now is the time for companies to bring their organizations to the Internet. Larry Kramer, creator of marketwatch.com argues that an audience will find a way to get the news they want when they want it and if CBS fails to deliver consumers will find somewhere else to get their news. Schmidt channeled Kramer, stating that consumers want their news when and where they want it, which oftentimes leads them to create it themselves on websites such as YouTube of MySpace.
I agree with Frontline’s argument that television news is no longer reporting the amount of hard news they once did. A lot of cable television shows have entire segments devoted to sports and entertainment. I also agree that television reporting on cable news has become opinionated commentary. Almost all of the cable news channels have shows that feature commentary from popular anchors such as Fox News’ Bill O’Reily or CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Even hard news reporting is being mixed with the opinions of the anchors reporting on them, such was the case in “Info Snacking” with CNN anchor Nancy Grace giving her opinion on the death of Anna Nicole Smith instead of simply reporting the facts surrounding the death. As for the second part of Frontline’s argument that television news will one day have to be on the Internet I disagree. As it stated at the beginning of the chapter, many Americans are still getting their news from television news shows. I feel that television is a mainstay in American society and no matter how popular the Internet may become, it will never replace what Americans get from television. I also think that different forms of media need competition from other forms of media so that the best story is reported. If a story were to be reported the wrong way on the Internet, then television news is there to correct it and vice versa. I just can’t see there ever being a situation where it will become necessary for television news shows to bring themselves to the Internet.
I think that blogging is a lot like what Frontline was arguing with opinionated commentary and lack of hard news. While it’s true I have not looked at a majority of the blogs available to me, I feel that the ones I have looked at focus more on the writer’s opinion and on softer news stories. I think blogs are a way for regular people to express their opinions and report on stories, but I feel that most of what they are reporting is not hard news stories. I think that blogs are like cable news shows because the writers are expressing their opinions like the news anchors who are reporting but also giving their opinion in the report.
In News War’s next chapter “The Universe of Online Media” Frontline’s main argument was the role of the citizen journalist. It begins the chapter talking about the online mock news show Rocketboom, which has both hard and soft news delivered by citizen journalists. However, Rocketboom creator Andrew Baron doesn’t consider his online show to be a form of journalism, but says that other people consider Rocketboom to be an act of journalism. Jeff Jarvis, a blogger for Buzz Machine, argued that not all bloggers want to be journalists, but there are some that find a story and tell it accurately, fairly and completely the way traditional journalists do. Jarvis also argued that the role of citizen journalists it to set the agenda, keep stories alive and tell mainstream media what they ought to be reporting on. Nicholas Lemann, Dean of Columbia University School of Journalism, argued that citizen journalism is important, but it produces a lot of commentary with very little new information. Lemann compared blogs to church bulletins because both are community bulletin boards of sorts, but there isn’t a lot of reliable or original reporting coming from bloggers.
Frontline argued against Lemann’s points with two instances that were defining moments for blogging and citizen journalism. In 2002, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott was giving a speech at Strom Thurman’s 100th birthday celebration. In his speech he praised the segregated ticket for which Thurman ran. The national media never picked up the story, but Josh Marshall reported it on his blog Talking Points Memo. The national media then picked up the story and two weeks later Lott resigned as Senate Majority Leader. Then in September 2004, conservative blogger Scott Johnson of the Power Line blog went after CBS News and anchor Dan Rather about the authenticity of documents stating former President George W. Bush’s military record. Power Line drew many people’s expertise in a small amount of time to eventually show that the documents weren’t authentic. Dan Rather and CBS News apologized for the story and soon after Dan Rather was pushed out of CBS News. Johnson thought that at first he was putting the credibility of the blog in jeopardy, but as time progressed thought more about how many times CBS News had run a story like the President Bush story and gotten away with it. Both instances were proof against Lemann’s argument and praise the role of citizen journalists.
I agree with Frontline and Jeff Jarvis that citizen journalism is important and that many citizen journalists think of themselves as traditional journalists. However, I also agree with Nicholas Lemann’s point that a lot of bloggers are focused on commentary rather than original reporting. Frontline proved that citizen journalism is important by showing the instances that caught the mistakes of both Trent Lott and Dan Rather. Without citizen journalists checking into different events or checking the mistakes of traditional journalists, we as citizens would not be given the full and true story. The Trent Lott story showed that the national media still picks and chooses the parts of the stories they feel are the most important, but as Josh Marshall pointed out it may not be the complete story. The Dan Rather story proved that even the greatest of traditional media make mistakes, but now citizen journalists like Johnson are there to make sure those at fault take responsibility and correct those mistakes. I also think that Lemann had a point in saying that many blogs today are more about commentary and getting one’s opinion out to the masses then it is about being a journalist.
Blogging is a popular form of citizen journalism and defining the role of the blogger is an ongoing debate. Frontline tries to show that the debate over the role of citizen journalism is currently being waged and that so far nothing has been clearly defined. The opinions of experts in the field such as Jeff Jarvis and Nicholas Lemann are important because they are currently in the field or researching the field and this is how the role is going to become defined. I think that Frontline’s examples of the defining moments of blogging thus far show how important citizen journalism and blogging have become to our society. I think it also shows how vulnerable traditional media has become to citizen journalism because they are going to continue to be there keeping them in check. While the role of a blogger or a citizen journalist has yet to be defined, Frontline did show how important they both are becoming to today’s society.
I think that blogging is going to continue to evolve. As the capabilities of the Internet continue to evolve I think the types of blogging are going to become even more vast then they are now. While I think that written blogs are going to continue to be a mainstay, I think video blogs are going to become more popular and are the type most likely to evolve further. I think with sites like Current available, video blogging is becoming more popular, but with the vast amount of written blogs, as witnessed by almost any search on technorati.com, I think video blogging has more room for expansion. I also think that the role of citizen journalism will continue to be debated and will not come to a clear definition for many years because there will always be two passionate sides like Jeff Jarvis and Nicholas Lemann demonstrated.
The chapter transitions from its argument of hard news versus opinionated reporting to the argument that television news broadcasts will have to one day be put online as is the case with the most popular cable news show 60 Minutes. 60 Minutes offers a variety of hard news stories and lighter pieces highlighting celebrities or sports personalities. As with many news shows, 60 Minutes’ audience is aging, so the show’s Executive Producer Jeff Fager teamed with Yahoo.com to create a space where segments from the show and never before see footage were just a click away and provide more links to more content of the same nature. Fager argues that this attempt to gain revenue is in its early stages and that it’s too early to tell if this attempt has brought more viewers to the actual 60 Minutes broadcast. Google CEO Eric Schmidt argues that being online is the future, but now is the time for companies to bring their organizations to the Internet. Larry Kramer, creator of marketwatch.com argues that an audience will find a way to get the news they want when they want it and if CBS fails to deliver consumers will find somewhere else to get their news. Schmidt channeled Kramer, stating that consumers want their news when and where they want it, which oftentimes leads them to create it themselves on websites such as YouTube of MySpace.
I agree with Frontline’s argument that television news is no longer reporting the amount of hard news they once did. A lot of cable television shows have entire segments devoted to sports and entertainment. I also agree that television reporting on cable news has become opinionated commentary. Almost all of the cable news channels have shows that feature commentary from popular anchors such as Fox News’ Bill O’Reily or CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Even hard news reporting is being mixed with the opinions of the anchors reporting on them, such was the case in “Info Snacking” with CNN anchor Nancy Grace giving her opinion on the death of Anna Nicole Smith instead of simply reporting the facts surrounding the death. As for the second part of Frontline’s argument that television news will one day have to be on the Internet I disagree. As it stated at the beginning of the chapter, many Americans are still getting their news from television news shows. I feel that television is a mainstay in American society and no matter how popular the Internet may become, it will never replace what Americans get from television. I also think that different forms of media need competition from other forms of media so that the best story is reported. If a story were to be reported the wrong way on the Internet, then television news is there to correct it and vice versa. I just can’t see there ever being a situation where it will become necessary for television news shows to bring themselves to the Internet.
I think that blogging is a lot like what Frontline was arguing with opinionated commentary and lack of hard news. While it’s true I have not looked at a majority of the blogs available to me, I feel that the ones I have looked at focus more on the writer’s opinion and on softer news stories. I think blogs are a way for regular people to express their opinions and report on stories, but I feel that most of what they are reporting is not hard news stories. I think that blogs are like cable news shows because the writers are expressing their opinions like the news anchors who are reporting but also giving their opinion in the report.
In News War’s next chapter “The Universe of Online Media” Frontline’s main argument was the role of the citizen journalist. It begins the chapter talking about the online mock news show Rocketboom, which has both hard and soft news delivered by citizen journalists. However, Rocketboom creator Andrew Baron doesn’t consider his online show to be a form of journalism, but says that other people consider Rocketboom to be an act of journalism. Jeff Jarvis, a blogger for Buzz Machine, argued that not all bloggers want to be journalists, but there are some that find a story and tell it accurately, fairly and completely the way traditional journalists do. Jarvis also argued that the role of citizen journalists it to set the agenda, keep stories alive and tell mainstream media what they ought to be reporting on. Nicholas Lemann, Dean of Columbia University School of Journalism, argued that citizen journalism is important, but it produces a lot of commentary with very little new information. Lemann compared blogs to church bulletins because both are community bulletin boards of sorts, but there isn’t a lot of reliable or original reporting coming from bloggers.
Frontline argued against Lemann’s points with two instances that were defining moments for blogging and citizen journalism. In 2002, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott was giving a speech at Strom Thurman’s 100th birthday celebration. In his speech he praised the segregated ticket for which Thurman ran. The national media never picked up the story, but Josh Marshall reported it on his blog Talking Points Memo. The national media then picked up the story and two weeks later Lott resigned as Senate Majority Leader. Then in September 2004, conservative blogger Scott Johnson of the Power Line blog went after CBS News and anchor Dan Rather about the authenticity of documents stating former President George W. Bush’s military record. Power Line drew many people’s expertise in a small amount of time to eventually show that the documents weren’t authentic. Dan Rather and CBS News apologized for the story and soon after Dan Rather was pushed out of CBS News. Johnson thought that at first he was putting the credibility of the blog in jeopardy, but as time progressed thought more about how many times CBS News had run a story like the President Bush story and gotten away with it. Both instances were proof against Lemann’s argument and praise the role of citizen journalists.
I agree with Frontline and Jeff Jarvis that citizen journalism is important and that many citizen journalists think of themselves as traditional journalists. However, I also agree with Nicholas Lemann’s point that a lot of bloggers are focused on commentary rather than original reporting. Frontline proved that citizen journalism is important by showing the instances that caught the mistakes of both Trent Lott and Dan Rather. Without citizen journalists checking into different events or checking the mistakes of traditional journalists, we as citizens would not be given the full and true story. The Trent Lott story showed that the national media still picks and chooses the parts of the stories they feel are the most important, but as Josh Marshall pointed out it may not be the complete story. The Dan Rather story proved that even the greatest of traditional media make mistakes, but now citizen journalists like Johnson are there to make sure those at fault take responsibility and correct those mistakes. I also think that Lemann had a point in saying that many blogs today are more about commentary and getting one’s opinion out to the masses then it is about being a journalist.
Blogging is a popular form of citizen journalism and defining the role of the blogger is an ongoing debate. Frontline tries to show that the debate over the role of citizen journalism is currently being waged and that so far nothing has been clearly defined. The opinions of experts in the field such as Jeff Jarvis and Nicholas Lemann are important because they are currently in the field or researching the field and this is how the role is going to become defined. I think that Frontline’s examples of the defining moments of blogging thus far show how important citizen journalism and blogging have become to our society. I think it also shows how vulnerable traditional media has become to citizen journalism because they are going to continue to be there keeping them in check. While the role of a blogger or a citizen journalist has yet to be defined, Frontline did show how important they both are becoming to today’s society.
I think that blogging is going to continue to evolve. As the capabilities of the Internet continue to evolve I think the types of blogging are going to become even more vast then they are now. While I think that written blogs are going to continue to be a mainstay, I think video blogs are going to become more popular and are the type most likely to evolve further. I think with sites like Current available, video blogging is becoming more popular, but with the vast amount of written blogs, as witnessed by almost any search on technorati.com, I think video blogging has more room for expansion. I also think that the role of citizen journalism will continue to be debated and will not come to a clear definition for many years because there will always be two passionate sides like Jeff Jarvis and Nicholas Lemann demonstrated.
Monday, March 9, 2009
The future of News Media
After watching the video called “Info. Snacking” I would state that the argument they are trying to get across is that broadcasting on the internet is our future, it is not a generational change, but it is a functional, new technologic change, that we need to come to realization. People are stating that the time is now to change over to the internet and the question is how will the old media transition to this new change. Since the year 2000, there has been much more competition that has come into the world of news media and in order to stand out you need to be more opinion-based. People want to hear commentary and the thoughts of the news anchors or journalists. They are becoming less dependent on the reporter based news information.
The chapter summarizes, 60 minutes is still one of the most popular news television shows, which show reporter information and celberity gossip to keep the audience interested, but the CEO of 60 minutes realizes that it’s audience is aging and soon they need to target more of the younger consumers. 60 minutes has joined yahoo on the internet, so yahoo could start putting news from 60 minutes on the internet. Yahoo does not display the news in the same manner as it would on the television. They are using lighter stories and stories that are not even aired on television. This type of news definitely appeals to the younger audience. People in their thirties are getting online to see whats going on in the news, not sitting down and watching the tube. 60 minutes has used something called “info snacking” to catch their consumers attention. They chop up their news stories into pieces, so that consumers can look at a link and then click on it to take them to another link and so on. The smaller, and catchier phrases and information is what catches the new , younger consumers attention. At this point in time the internet is still a small revenue in the old medias new change, and it is going to take them a while to start making a greater profit, but eventually it is a change they are needing to make. Most all of the television media is starting to deliever to the online media. Consumers are demanding news wherever they are and they want it immediately. Consumers are even making up their own blogging and journalist sites, so they can get the news fast and conveniently.
I agree with this argument 100%. I believe that the future is in the online media. People’s lives are not slow enough to sit down and take the time to watch an hour television news show. They want the news with one click of the mouse. The younger generation is not as patient anymore and they are always looking to know the latest information. If the television news media does not change and grow to broaden their horizons with online media they will eventually fall. I do believe though that they are going to have to grow in a new non-traditional way. The competion is a lot higher when it comes to the internet and like the video stated the news can come from anywhere. The CEO of google stated that “the new reporters are not going to follow the traditional path, they won’t be as tied to the traditional newspapers, they are going to be online reporters, bloggers, or man on the street and they are now part of the news calculation around the world”. This is where blogging plays a vital role in the latest news media. Bloggers are the future of online media, and the old media is going to have a hard transitioning to the new future.
The next chapter that I decided to write about is called “The New Universe of Online Media” . I feel as though the argument this chapter takes on is what journalism really is, who are the “real” journalists, and how affective bloggers have become in the online media world. This chapter showed a variety of circumstances that the bloggers and the “so called” journalist have stood out more than the television media. Rocketboom, which is a “daily, short webcast of news and humorous feature stories, which is presented in a mock TV news style” is part of the new universe of online media. Rocketboom currently has just as many viewers as some cable television news media and they are doing it in a cheaper way. The only difference is with one click of a button, in seconds, Rocketboom can be viewed by the world. Rocketboom would never consider themselves journalist, but consumers are saying that this is an act of journalism and they are accurate and credible with the news they are presenting online.
With all the new “so-called” journalists and bloggers out there today, it brings to the question what is journalism? People want to be apart of the online media. Consumers want to get involved, and all they have to do is blog to the world. As a blogger you can not be told what to do or what not to do and people like this. Jeff Jarvis, an online blogger, stated that some bloggers do not want to be considered journalists, he believes they just want to talk to the world, and he says that they are doing so very effectively. Some people in the world want to be journalists and if they find out information accurately and report it to the world that is an act of journalism. Not everyone though believes this, Nick Lemann, the dean at Colombia University of Journalism, belittles online journalists and citizen journalists, he does not believe that everyone should be considered a journalist and does not agree with Jarvis in that sense. He believes it is all just commentary and that it is not new information. Jarvis argues with Lemann when Lemann stated that bloggers and citizen journalists are just repeating news that has already been stated and nothing they share online is original.
I agree with Jarvis especially with one incident the video states to show that online media is becoming more effective. On Strom Thurman’s birthday when Senator Trent Lott spoke to Thurman he put him down tremondously and endorsed Thurman’s old segrational policies. The national media looked over this and it wasn’t until a blogger posted a case about what had happened during this speech and in two weeks after this was posted Senator Lott resigned from this position. It was the online blogger media that brought this to the attention of the world. Bloggers have continued to stand out and in 2004 a blogger caught ear that CBS claimed to have implicating documents on President Bush’s national guard service. People were starting to read this blog and the power of the medium struck again. CBS and Dan Rather appoligized on air, whenever they were caught not being geniune about this story and Rather was fired from CBS after 45 years.
The chapter greatly relates to blogging because of the power blogging has been building over the years to prove that they do have original news and they are trying to affect the world accurately. Consumers are obviously reading online media and bloggers all over the world are becoming the future of the media. Bloggers will just continue to strike again and stand up for themselves as act of journalists.
The future of blogging is going to grow rapidly, more people are going to start blogging. Bloggers are allowed to do anything they want and will not be told what to do. This is what people want. Today consumers are "go getters" they want to get involved in the news media and they will do so. Bloggers are the future of news media, if they realize this or not and its consumers like us that are changing the news media world. We are the viewers of these blogs and citizen journalists sites. The more we view the sites the more noticed the bloggers become.
The chapter summarizes, 60 minutes is still one of the most popular news television shows, which show reporter information and celberity gossip to keep the audience interested, but the CEO of 60 minutes realizes that it’s audience is aging and soon they need to target more of the younger consumers. 60 minutes has joined yahoo on the internet, so yahoo could start putting news from 60 minutes on the internet. Yahoo does not display the news in the same manner as it would on the television. They are using lighter stories and stories that are not even aired on television. This type of news definitely appeals to the younger audience. People in their thirties are getting online to see whats going on in the news, not sitting down and watching the tube. 60 minutes has used something called “info snacking” to catch their consumers attention. They chop up their news stories into pieces, so that consumers can look at a link and then click on it to take them to another link and so on. The smaller, and catchier phrases and information is what catches the new , younger consumers attention. At this point in time the internet is still a small revenue in the old medias new change, and it is going to take them a while to start making a greater profit, but eventually it is a change they are needing to make. Most all of the television media is starting to deliever to the online media. Consumers are demanding news wherever they are and they want it immediately. Consumers are even making up their own blogging and journalist sites, so they can get the news fast and conveniently.
I agree with this argument 100%. I believe that the future is in the online media. People’s lives are not slow enough to sit down and take the time to watch an hour television news show. They want the news with one click of the mouse. The younger generation is not as patient anymore and they are always looking to know the latest information. If the television news media does not change and grow to broaden their horizons with online media they will eventually fall. I do believe though that they are going to have to grow in a new non-traditional way. The competion is a lot higher when it comes to the internet and like the video stated the news can come from anywhere. The CEO of google stated that “the new reporters are not going to follow the traditional path, they won’t be as tied to the traditional newspapers, they are going to be online reporters, bloggers, or man on the street and they are now part of the news calculation around the world”. This is where blogging plays a vital role in the latest news media. Bloggers are the future of online media, and the old media is going to have a hard transitioning to the new future.
The next chapter that I decided to write about is called “The New Universe of Online Media” . I feel as though the argument this chapter takes on is what journalism really is, who are the “real” journalists, and how affective bloggers have become in the online media world. This chapter showed a variety of circumstances that the bloggers and the “so called” journalist have stood out more than the television media. Rocketboom, which is a “daily, short webcast of news and humorous feature stories, which is presented in a mock TV news style” is part of the new universe of online media. Rocketboom currently has just as many viewers as some cable television news media and they are doing it in a cheaper way. The only difference is with one click of a button, in seconds, Rocketboom can be viewed by the world. Rocketboom would never consider themselves journalist, but consumers are saying that this is an act of journalism and they are accurate and credible with the news they are presenting online.
With all the new “so-called” journalists and bloggers out there today, it brings to the question what is journalism? People want to be apart of the online media. Consumers want to get involved, and all they have to do is blog to the world. As a blogger you can not be told what to do or what not to do and people like this. Jeff Jarvis, an online blogger, stated that some bloggers do not want to be considered journalists, he believes they just want to talk to the world, and he says that they are doing so very effectively. Some people in the world want to be journalists and if they find out information accurately and report it to the world that is an act of journalism. Not everyone though believes this, Nick Lemann, the dean at Colombia University of Journalism, belittles online journalists and citizen journalists, he does not believe that everyone should be considered a journalist and does not agree with Jarvis in that sense. He believes it is all just commentary and that it is not new information. Jarvis argues with Lemann when Lemann stated that bloggers and citizen journalists are just repeating news that has already been stated and nothing they share online is original.
I agree with Jarvis especially with one incident the video states to show that online media is becoming more effective. On Strom Thurman’s birthday when Senator Trent Lott spoke to Thurman he put him down tremondously and endorsed Thurman’s old segrational policies. The national media looked over this and it wasn’t until a blogger posted a case about what had happened during this speech and in two weeks after this was posted Senator Lott resigned from this position. It was the online blogger media that brought this to the attention of the world. Bloggers have continued to stand out and in 2004 a blogger caught ear that CBS claimed to have implicating documents on President Bush’s national guard service. People were starting to read this blog and the power of the medium struck again. CBS and Dan Rather appoligized on air, whenever they were caught not being geniune about this story and Rather was fired from CBS after 45 years.
The chapter greatly relates to blogging because of the power blogging has been building over the years to prove that they do have original news and they are trying to affect the world accurately. Consumers are obviously reading online media and bloggers all over the world are becoming the future of the media. Bloggers will just continue to strike again and stand up for themselves as act of journalists.
The future of blogging is going to grow rapidly, more people are going to start blogging. Bloggers are allowed to do anything they want and will not be told what to do. This is what people want. Today consumers are "go getters" they want to get involved in the news media and they will do so. Bloggers are the future of news media, if they realize this or not and its consumers like us that are changing the news media world. We are the viewers of these blogs and citizen journalists sites. The more we view the sites the more noticed the bloggers become.
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