Franks World

When someone thinks about journalism, they think of newspapers. When someone thinks of newspapers, they think about the decline of newspapers and might be misinformed on the true facts behind that statement. Briggs really opens ones eyes to where journalism once was to where it is heading in the near and distant future.

Chapters one and two:

Briggs starts off with information about the supposed “decline of journalism”. Everyone assumed that with the decline of physical newspapers that the whole journalistic side of writing was also going to fade away. This has been proven untrue with the rise of technologies including the internet and smart phones. Briggs really gives hope to aspirating journalists such as myself and gives us something to look forward to. Journalism may be on the decline in one way but on a major incline in another.

With technologies currently evolving in an unreal speed, the older generations are starting to take a back seat to the new and upcoming journalists. Briggs mentions that it is time for these younger generations to take over these positions that have been held by the older generations in journalism. The younger writers are more in tune with the new technologies such as internet blogs, twitter, and smart phone applications. All these new technologies have risen from nothing within the last 10 years. Can you imagine where all these technologies will be in 5 years? Totally outdated and absorbed by some other new and upcoming trend. Its time from the young to “keep hip” and to take over this world. There was a lot of information distributed throughout these chapters but they really made you think of what’s next.

In chapter two, Briggs started to talk about blogs. He mentions the history of how they came to be. Today blogs are everywhere and run by absolutely anyone. You can go online anywhere and find someone venting about something as meaningless as a piece of paper, but hey, that’s what they are for right? This chapter really got me excited to work on my own blog and really let my mind write freely without a care in the world.. well maybe my grade!

Can you think back to the last time you actually took the time to sit down and read a newspaper at your table? Yea neither can I.. Professor Kline has asked our class of young future reporters to read this article from The Washington Post and express how we feel.

The Article is titled “I Really Need You to Read this, Ok?” by Joel Achenbach.

Joel really makes one think about the past and present status of news papers.

“Our future is the media” – Joel Achenbach

I know that personally I have never took the time to read a whole newspaper from front to back within the past few years for fun. I depend on my iPhone for all my news. It has its good and bad points. The good that sticks out with electronic news as opposed to print is that its always 100% updated second by second. The negative is that you are screwed if you battery dies or your power goes out! Print will be there rain or shine.

So what are you? Old or new school?

This is my media pyramid. At the top of the list is twitter. Twitter is the way I really connect to the world. It updates me every second of every day with different sources of information. I follow different new sources that also keep me up to date with what is going on in the world. The next one down would have to be YouTube and Facebook. YouTube is a good source because a lot of different news sources upload their videos that help inform people, like myself, with whats going on. Facebook is a good way to get news from other people. All your friends post things on their walls and it’s all put into my news feed. I go through and read it all and it really helps me get information on things that I have missed. Last part of the pyramid would be CNN. I rarely watch the news on TV but when I do CNN really helps me see things from a different point of view.

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