Both of the first readings of the semester examine a
transformation in how the masses consume news on a daily basis.
In “What
Society Requires is Reputable Journalism,” author Catherine Ford talks about
the transformation of newspapers from a profitable paper form, to today’s
market of shrinking papers. While she says the papers as we know them are on
their way out because the “old model is broken,” she says the Internet cannot
yet “deliver reputable journalism on its own.” This is something that, to me,
makes newspapers indispensable. Each region or town’s paper is normally a
long-established source of news for the community that is trusted by its
readers. New technology may offer more outlets for news, but it cannot replace the
trust that readers have put into their local newspapers.
Ford also
wrote about the organization of news and the trust that it gives its readers. This
is something that cannot be replaced by a website. While more stories and maybe
even more in-depth stories can be posted online, they are not organized in a
way that makes them stand out to the reader. Newspapers offer a structure that
guides the reader to each story and allows them to flow seamlessly from one
story to the next, something that the Internet does not allow.
In the
second reading, author James Carey starts with a compliment of American
journalists in the elegance of a lede in the New York
Later in
the reading, Carey offers a critique of daily journalism that I don’t believe
is warranted. He says it’s self-serving because it assumes that the consumers
of news are constant readers. This, in my opinion, is how news should be
because in order to understand the news, readers must then envelop themselves
in it every day to fully grasp the news of the day.
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