Summary Of Farhad Manjoo's Breaking News Is Broken

Clay Shirky who wrote Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable (1993) argues that society doesn’t need newspapers society needs journalism to save society. Shirky supports this argument by giving a historical background to the problems newspapers face and how the problems have developed over time and the solutions society has came up with. The blogger concludes that in order for journalism to go farther new models must be created in place of past molds. Shirky directs this blog toward the current and future generations in attempt to motivate new models and methods of journalism.

Newspapers and other forms of news are very vital communication methods in the world today. The goal of news is to sell us their ideas by being biased and talking about how their idea is best. News can give us biased information although, the viewer could do further research on the

Secondly, Postman’s talks about irrelevant “News”. Stories that aren’t apart of the news all. stories only chosen to generate audience. As I was watching the news they talked about cats being abuse, and last minute valentines’ gifts, and that student are now allowed to drink water on school buses, and also an oyster feasible. Thing that don’t have nothing to do with what actually matters in the world. And it is these kinds of stories being told that has reduced our ability to take the world seriously.

that the more advanced and complex the devices we use, the easier our lives get.

TRANSITION: News is constantly available to read, however what individuals see and share becomes things that are not completely accurate. Then judgments are made based on that false information, and misinformed individuals.

News stories allow people to obtain information locally or worldwide. Things occur on the other side of the world have a cause-effect effect. To the other side of the world. For example, When the US army was in Iraq and the empire state building was blown up in New York City. There are many more examples of this effect. Currently there are very important stories in the news tha are very informative such as What it takes to rebuild iraq, Trump blasts “rigged” rules on picking republican delegates,The Paradox of Being a Black, Christian, Social-Justice Advocate, Texas Teacher Caught on Video Slapping Student and Calling Him ‘Idiot Ass’ Arrested: Report.

2. Share this – “Sharing is emerging as a way of distributing the news”, as with Tweeters, Facebook, iPhone apps, and by text

He goes on to compare today’s advancements to those of past inventions, such as the printing press and stopwatch. “When the mechanical clock arrived, people began to think that their brains operated like clockwork…nowadays people prefer to think that they are like computers.” (514)

Websites, twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc., are examples of social media to be used to disseminate information to the general public. Implementation of a reverse 911 system provided notification of to specific neighborhood areas. Personal visits, town meetings and fliers provide a personal touch when communicating, especially with a neighborhood or the public. The final form of media is news conferences or (need to consider the current form of communication).

Businesses use platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook as a modern tool to share information with their customers. Facebook offers the option for businesses to create a fan page for their company or product. Twitter allows the use of 140-character posts that users can follow, tweet, or retweet. Blogs are less commonly used, but allow businesses to write in journal type format. YouTube offers a video-library to its users with millions of viewers around the world. There are many other types of social media but most of them follow similar general communication capabilities. Utilizing these

When it comes to finding about the news of what’s going on in our world, we want details and facts. We want the juice of what’s actually going on. The debate between the efficiency of newspapers and TV news, TV news is a lot more effective.

The world has never before been connected as much as it is today. One’s ability to communicate through various mediums is rapidly advancing, and this is much thanks to social media.

The purpose of news is to translate what is happening in the world in terms that make it comprehendable – that is, understandable according to listener expectations and experience. This tends to

Technology is often changing our lives to make things easier and better for them.Then at the same

What was astonishing was not the rapidity of the news- that is, after all, the beauty of modern broadcasting technology- but the effect that the news had on the public. In the following weeks and months, story after story demonstrated the