The readership of our print media is dwindling. So is the
size of the established media organisations in line with those readership
numbers. Our nation have turned somewhat to using social media and online media
outlets for their news. However, I contend that the diversity of sourcing
remains fairly constant. So, although journalistic enterprises like the
Huffington Post and Reddit have come in to existence we are regurgitating the
same junk over and over sharing via the internet with added spin or a new
angle, as if these journalistic expositions were fresh. Newsflash, they are
not. The business model of a ‘good old fashioned newspaper’ is that which
brings you your news and the internet’s seemingly false prophecies of fresh
material, supposedly allowing any conectee the ability to contribute to the
world of newscasting hasn’t happened as we thought.
These flows of information do occur and thus create news
very quickly ever since the birth of the internet, but they must first be collated
in some way. Enter the reputable news outlet, almost always. Our readily
consumed news is redistributed where otherwise ‘poo poo’ news material would be
lost in the vastness of our supposedly glorious ‘websphere.’