Move over journals, step back tabloids, back off newspapers, it’s the rise of the INTERNET! With the rise of the Internet, it has been a new form for people to get their dose of media updates. Anything that can range from the news updates, to celebrity gossip, advertisements to even the classified. Anything that anyone could be looking for can now be found on the lovely World Wide Web. With the rise of this new form of media, there is a sad decline in people whom actually read printed newspapers, journals and articles (unless your grandma or grandpa and don’t know much about technology and using a computer). With the Internet being this new form of receiving news and information, will this be a permanent way of how people get their news? Plus, is what your reading online always going to be credible and honest? Lets take a look at how the Internet is taking over the way people get their news and information.
The death of the classified! I thought it would be interesting example to touch on, as not many people want to pay newspapers to post a used car ads for sale anymore. What about used furniture that people simply don’t want? Having a garage sale? Why pay to have it printed when you can simply post online for free? Well, websites like Craigslist.org and freecycle.org offer people like you and I free postings. One can find a garage sale, or used bikes, to used car, and even look for no strings attached sex (yes, you read right!). Many of these are offered free to the public, they may post whatever they are looking for and/or seeking, it can be found online.
What about the way people get their news? I am a college student and I don’t have the type of money to subscribe to a newspaper. Why pay for a subscription to say, the San Francisco Chronicle, or the San Jose Mercury News? These newspapers simply don’t make money off your subscription to their paper (they do, just not a lot); they make money off of advertising. However, the point is about reading new through print. Because of the Internet, I don’t need to subscribe to such newspapers to get my dose in what’s going on in the world today. With the click of a mouse, I can browse yahoo news or even CNN.com to get the information I need. Advertisements? Simple. I can go to the store’s website I am interested in on Saturday night or Sunday morning and I can browse the advertisements via the web. Finding the news I want, when I want, and seeing the ads I want are as simply as pie!
With this new form media, can we always trust what we read on the web? The thought has crossed my mind that the newspaper is a very credible source when it comes to news. However, it is possible for one to find information that is not credible on the World Wide Web. Websites like Wikipedia for example, it’s a great website but its not always credible. The reason for it not being credible is that people are free to change information and so what you see, is not what you’re going to get. You can only take that information you find on various websites like a grain of salt. For the most part, I think this is going to be the future of how people will get their news and information. This is the information age, where data travels fast and we don’t have to wait for print anymore. Do I think print is going to die? Eventually, I think it will still be around but it will just get smaller and smaller. As for the future, I don’t know if the Internet will dominate forever as being the new way for people to get their news. With Technology always changing, who knows, people could receive news through an implanted chip. A vivid thought or idea but for now, the Internet is here to stay.
1 comments:
Very interesting. Well done.
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