The Death of News

Most people already know that journalism itself is in a big crisis. Gary Kamiya mentions in his article that, "daily newspapers are going out of business at an unprecedented rate, and the survivors are slashing their budgets. Thousands of reporters and editors have lost their jobs." She points out a statistic provided by analyst Allan Mutter, that in 2008 was the worst year for newspaper publishers, with an 83 percent dropping of shares. From my point of view, this is something not only journalists are terrified from but also the audience of the newspapers.

If newspapers in a way are vanishing, is the new media going to take over? Well what about reporting? This is the important question we need to ask ourselves, becasue according to Kamiya, "the real problem isn't that newspapers may be doomed, what is really threatened by the decline of newspapers and the related rise of online media is reporting." And yes, I totally beleive this because most of the reporting originates from newspapers, and what if newspapers disappear, then those well trained journalists that work hard towards finding stories with true unbiased facts, will have no place to go.

New media, also known as online media, is what people are now days using to get their news. I am of those thousand of people accessing the web to be updated on what is going on the world. But this is not what we are looking at here, what we are looking at, is how online media is taking away millions of journalist jobs and preventing them from going to certain parts of the world and where actual live, hard work, unbiased reporting is done. I am not saying online media does not have great reliable sources because otherwise online news wouldn't be have much success, but I am certain that all we are going to have are stories written by people who do not have a neutral site posting them online.

Primary reporting will soon be out of the picture if this keeps going the way it has been since 2008. Something needs to be done in order for the online media to go by their business and not interrupt the great work newspaper companies have done for the past decades, bringing people an ink copy of news every morning to their house, so they can enjoy the sunrise and their cup of coffee.