TOPIC 1 wk 5
f) What do you think of the overall claim that ‘the Net could facilitate new types of media institution’?
I think the net allows anyone with an opinion to express that. A web news article would be a great place to put those ideas. However, it must also be said that many of those opinions are better suited to blogs or comments because of their lack of experience or academic/professional worthiness.I believe there will always be a distinct difference between web news and newspapers - however, I think we choose to consume them in different ways. Just as we may pick up a newspaper knowing it will be heavily biased in a particular direction, we may also understand that web news may provide an entertaining-but-not-entirely-creditable experience.
Personally, I would rather be entertained by a loosely based web article than forced to believe a newspaper journalists opinion because they are well spoken and have people in high places.
I think the net allows anyone with an opinion to express that. A web news article would be a great place to put those ideas. However, it must also be said that many of those opinions are better suited to blogs or comments because of their lack of experience or academic/professional worthiness.I believe there will always be a distinct difference between web news and newspapers - however, I think we choose to consume them in different ways. Just as we may pick up a newspaper knowing it will be heavily biased in a particular direction, we may also understand that web news may provide an entertaining-but-not-entirely-creditable experience.
Personally, I would rather be entertained by a loosely based web article than forced to believe a newspaper journalists opinion because they are well spoken and have people in high places.
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posted by Joanne at
03:23
3 Comments:
Do you believe this notion of the newspapers being bias and web news being sometimes untrustworthy, is a shared thought throughout society, or is this just our beliefs because we are media trained to understand this?
From knowing how the people around me judge newspapers and web news I would say that the general idea is that news will be biased in one way or another - it just makes good news. I personally think the less a news report elaborates on a story the more factual it is likely to be.
I agree, although sometimes articles are painfully boring to read, they are nine times out of ten the more accurate.
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