Saturday, December 12, 2009

Journalism and Freedom (cont,)























I wanted to make a separate post to further discuss The Wall Street Journal article Government assistance is a greater threat to the press than any new technology by Rupert Murdoch.

After taking a break and really thinking about the content Murdoch presents raised many questions in my mind.

-Why would the government want to do this?

-The government have other, more important things to worry about. Why would they want to become directly involved in commercial journalism?
Do they have something to hide?

So the newspaper might be changing. Does the taxpayer really have to fund the journalists? Do we really need to make newspapers non-profits? Maybe I am too young and don't understand how the world works, but people will always want news.

I'm not sure if I went about this article in the correct way but my interpretation was the government might be taking over the news industry because the industry is 'going under' due to the
new technology.

Americans want and need news. So now they get it a different way. Every industry has to change with the 'times' at some point. Some prosper and some fade out, but news will prosper again.

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