Journalism in Today's World

The whole idea of journalism dying out in our modern society makes very little sense after some thought is put into the answer. What could be said is very significant, highly detailed, career ending stories, are no longer written at the rates they were before the internet changed the entire concept of journalism. What journalism has become is a large blog. The examples from the “yes” article demonstrate that newspapers have become a community based and run project that is done not by individuals who studied journalism or even do it for a living but by normal everyday people. The problem with this is that it does take away a lot of content but gives a lot of stories about what normal people are talking about. Bluffton Today is a great example of a town’s gossip in newspaper form but with some journalism in it. Opinio in Germany is again a newspaper that is based on people pitching, people that don’t know real journalism, which is journalism that takes a lot of time and research to do according to David Simon. Journalism isn’t even relative anymore as it has become headlines; people don’t read articles they read headlines about what happened. No one in our new age society has the patience to read a full article that has research and data in it, patience is a lost art that in many ways resulted in the death of real journalism.  The “yes” article is weak in arguing its point because it is clear that content has disappeared from the newspapers and other sources and that is what is meant by the death of journalism in today’s world. Journalism used to be a great art and skill but sadly over the creation of our greatest tool we have destroyed journalism and anything that is time consuming from this world, as Ritalin has become the only way to focus and a blog the only way to get facts, the way we use our greatest tool is making us lose the understanding of the world that we once had.