Blog 5 Will Evolving Forms of Journalism be an Improvement?

Will evolving forms of journalism be an improvement to society? To answer that question fully has taken much debate. After reading from the book "Taking Sides," I have came to the conclusion that people only can receive news by either reading or listening. This said how new is "evolving journalism." As a child 15 years ago, I always remember my grandfather reading the news papers in the morning. In present day he has an iPad. Now he subscribes to the same San Francisco Chronicle news paper it is just a "app" on his iPad. This is an evolving form of journalism in a few ways. The first way is my grandfather can now watch his news, or he has the option to read about it. He also has the option to look up past articles, dates and pretty much any article the SF Chronicle has in its archives. This is where and how journalism is evolving with such technologies as the iPad. The information is becoming easier to find with all the new networks out there. Humans can still only actually get information by reading or listing to it, now the only thing that is different in the last 100 years is how the news has been presented. It has came from bland news, to more of a talk show, man news stations are using something called a "hyper local"pg 205 which basically is focusing reporting news to the local community and focusing truly on  local news. Now many scholars would say that this is not an improvement to society take David Simon, "[he] testified in May of 2009 to a Senate Committee examining the future of journalism. his conclusion was that high-end journalism was dying in America and could not be saved by the Internet and/ or citizen journalists" pg 204. 

I feel David believes that the news should only be presented in a formal way, broadcaster or printed for the masses. I do not think he likes evolving forms of media such as YouTube or sites where users can display news how they want when they want and say what they want. I do not agree with Simon. I think it is good to have many different ways to receive information. The question still remains, will evolving forms of journalism be an improvement to our society? I say Yes. we live in a democracy where we have freedom of the speech and of the press. We do not need to listen to "big" news corporations anymore. We can report news to our fellow Americans. Real news not censored by the "board of directors of fox, or msnbc" I say evolving forms of journalism is an improvement.