An increasingly amount of people are going online for their news. I myself haven’t opened up an actual newspaper in a very long time. Until we discussed it in class, I never really noticed how online websites such as Huffington Post and Yahoo News are taking away from actual journalism. There is a concern with “stealing” the content from traditional news organizations. The new media especially sites like Craigslist are sucking away funds since they allow people to place ads for free. Thinking about what life would like like without the local news is something that I haven’t really given much though to because I am so used to having such easy access to all news articles online for free. After we discussed “grass root citizen journalism” which is people who are not professionals and still are able to report these stories. I was wondering how valid you think these individuals actually are and if you would be okay with nonprofessionals always reporting the news? The new media is undermining the power of “big media” and traditional journalism” by allowing easy access to articles all over the Internet, summaries are available that allow you to get condensed versions of the story, and the individuals who used to regulate what stories would be publish have changed since amateurs are now posting local news for the public to see. What do you guys think the biggest problem is of why the consumption of journalism is decreasing over time?
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