Zayed University students this semester in COM 408 are in good company. The first year I taught at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, Howie (Howard) Kurtz was not only one of my students but one of my advisees. Now he's got his own Wikipedia listing and is also media writer for The Washington Post. He is really into new technology with over 4,000 Facebook friends and he twitters, but he is worried about the future of print.
"The real question is for the public, not journalists: Does it want to pony up for news, whatever the media that prevail? It's all a matter of priorities. Before you write this off as an American problem, consider who's doing the reporting that the computer aggregators are serving up as news.If major news organizations die, who reports the news? The Washington Post and Goggle are talking collaboration, but Kurtz has his doubts: Hanging over the talks is the reality that the search giant, while funneling vital traffic to news sites, vacuums up their content without paying a dime. How much would you pay for international news? Be honest.
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- Nancy Beth Jackson
- We shall not cease from exploration/ And the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive where we started/ And know the place for the first time./ Through the unknown, remembered gate/ When the last of earth left to discover/ Is that which was the beginning... T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding V
4 comments:
well I'll not feel sorry if we don't have printed news any more. Papers need a lot of cutting trees, they make messes every where and they take space.
I personally feel like online news needs more effort to actually look for the news, whereas in a print published newspaper it's all there in front of you and all you should do is read it. Hmmm ..
However, what's good about online news is that you don't have to wait until the next morning to find out about news. There are many applications (like desktop alerts, and such) which simply alert you if there is any breaking news which might be of interest to you. These, and online news websites, provide easier, faster access to news.
Would I go out and by a newspaper? Not likely, unless I had to do it for educational reasons (like COM408, lol). Who knows? I might become a news junkie one day.
Back to the topic, perhaps this is a chance for our national news agencies to develop and improve their websites to provide better stories in an age where print is at risk.
Don't confused the delivery system with what's delivered. Where does the news come from that you read online? Who pays somebody to go out and get it? Edit it? Code it for a website? That's the point here. You don't have to cut down trees to get the news, but it doesn't just --pouf! -- appear on a website.
for me i like both, printed and online news.
Sometimes o like to read it infront of me and enjoy reading it. But i feel online news is for quickley. This is what i think.
However, it wastes the papers because rarely we keep some important news but always throw them.
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