Reading For Monday

     I found the reading to be especially interesting because my paper is very much focused around what the future of news could hold, and how people today feel about media mostly being online. One link that I especially enjoyed from Jay Rosen's blog was Paul Starr's piece, "Goodbye To the Age of Newspapers( Hello To the Age of Corruption). It was very compelling.

Starr is not happy with the idea of losing newspapers. One reason he feels that way is because he thinks that one danger of reduced media news coverage is "to the integrity of the government."He writes that it is known that corruption is more likely to happen when people in power have less reason to be afraid of being exposed. 

    Starr also brings up the point that newspapers are laying off reporters that have exposed major scandals, so if good reporters are being fired, then there is less of a chance that scandals could be revealed. Eric Alterman, a liberal American journalist, as well as an author, media critic, and blogger, discussed what he thought of print journalism on a quick 5 minute video. He discusses it with Brian Guber. 

      Altmann believes that newspapers are moving online and there is not much that can be done about it. He does feel that their are going to be, and are, negative consequences to journalism and media going online. Alternman brings up the point that people are much easier to manipulate if they have bad information, and like most people already/should know, there is a lot of bad and false information that circulates online.

    Starr also brings up the interesting point that news coverage isn't the only thing that newspapers have given us, "They have lent the public a powerful means of leverage over the state, and this leverage is now at risk" (Starr). I know that I have never thought about how much newspapers have done for our society but Starr definitely made many arguments about how many positive things newspapers do for us and the balance of our society.

Overall it was a very interesting article. On the other end of the spectrum was an article by Steven Berlin Johnson titled, "Old Growth Media and the Future of News." Johnson related how much easier it is to be updated on magazines and the like than it was in 1987. The Internet has definitely made the movement of information faster and easier, but it is sad to think that newspapers could completely disappear. Jay Rosen connected many interesting articles to his post. All of the perspectives on the future, and current situation of journalism, were very interesting, and helpful, for me to read about.