I remember sitting around my kitchen table when I was young
watching my dad read the newspaper after dinner. Is this staple of the American
household starting to become a way of the past? After reading the report by the
Pew Research Center, I was amazed to see what the priority of news topics was
for online bloggers and for old fashioned mainstream media.
Today the
popularity of topics is much more different than what I thought they were. For instance
today blogs spend more time on government and political topics than traditional
news hole media does. This trend continues in other areas of news coverage such
as foreign events, science and technology. These areas of news coverage
bloggers spend more time on than traditionally trained news teams do. This to
me is a slightly disturbing but understandable occurrence. If you think about
it anyone in the world can create a blog and they most likely will blog about
what is popular in the mass media outlet that they receive their information
from.
When I look
and interpret the graphs from the study done by the Pew Research Center I have
come to realize that most major newspapers have the same amount of linked
bloggers. For instance the Washington
Post and the New York Times both have government and politics linked from them
at around 27 percent. So due to the fact that bloggers need to link their
publications to a credible news source I feel that traditional news journalism
will not become obsolete. It may change form to an electronic newspaper or something
but teams of classically trained news reporters and journalists will not in my opinion
become obsolete. The reason this is true is because people have grown up
trusting that the newspapers and news that they see on TV is credible. This is
why bloggers need to link their information to credible sites. So no traditional
news media will not become obsolete I feel if anything in the economic and
social state that we are in it may become more credible than ever before.
Bibliography
The Pew Research
Center
http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/blogosphere
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