Concerning ch. 1, I never thought about how the trend in journalism today is that people want to be able to discuss news with reporters. I've always seen the news as something that only needed to be known and not discussed. I see that this isn't true, that people want to be able to talk about news coverage and whether it works. This idea is evident in many news sites, what with comments sections being featured in most articles.
The concept of news organizations being gatekeepers wasn't new to me, but I didn't have a word to fit to it until now. I didn't realize, however, how much control of the news was slipping away from the media with the advent of civilian journalism.
From ch. 2, the public journalism concept mentioned on pg. 23 is one that’s entirely new to me. As my original reporting training taught me, journalists should be unbiased and not push readers one way or the other on issues. This activist style of journalism seems to go against that, yet the fact that it’s being tried might mean that journalism might have moved past being completely unbiased.
The idea presented on the same page that readers today are “far more serious, concerned, interested, and demanding” seems to run contrary to how it appears to be. After all, the chapter did just get done talking about how today’s readers can access only the news they care about due to the internet. It just never occurred to me that this convergence actually makes readers more involved in the news they consume.
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