The Net's Effect on Journalism

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 17, 2008 @12:13AM from the no-not-that-way-the-other-way dept.

An Associated Press article about the impact of the internet on journalism has a few interesting findings. A few years ago, it was expected that the internet would democratize news coverage. While print media is being rapidly reborn online, web-based news appears to be constraining the number of conversations instead of expanding them. "The news agenda actually seems to be narrowing, with many Web sites primarily packaging news that is produced elsewhere, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism's annual State of the News Media report. Two stories - the war in Iraq and the 2008 presidential election campaign - represented more than a quarter of the stories in newspapers, on television and online last year, the project found. Take away Iraq, Iran and Pakistan, and news from all of the other countries in the world combined filled up less than 6 percent of the American news hole, the project said."

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Re:Not the Net's fault... by dens · 2008-03-17 04:56 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Take away Iraq, Iran and Pakistan, and news from all of the other countries in the world combined filled up less than 6 percent of the American news hole, the project said. Perhaps Republican Presidents aren't so bad fro education after all. Without wars, most Americans wouldn't even know these countries exist.

But serioulsy, American news has never featured news from around world, since to Americans, America IS the world.