Frontline

Watching the show opened my eyes to all this journalism going around that I was unaware of. It started off with a good point about how news has changed based on the type of stories published. The Frontline correspondent talked about how stories are getting popularity in todays world, but wouldn't have 30 years ago. I agree and think stories have changed. We are reading more bizzare and entertaining news, rather than important, but bland news.
The internet has opened up opportunities for anyone with access to be a journalist. Students and random citizens are making their own broadcasts and doing their own stories. Like the show said, anyone who captures something new happening and talks about is considered a journalist. People are leaving their original news casts and flocking to the hundreds of different sources online. Even the comedic Jon Stewart show gets watched for news purposes. People's needs for news has adopted a different style of reporting, causing old news sources to dwindle in popularity.
Later in the show, they talked about saving newspapers, specifically the L.A. Times and Craigslist. The founder of Craigslist was asked if he thought his free ad website was hurting newspapers income from classifieds, which he didn't think was happening. Newspapers are on the decline for many reasons. One, the internet holds many more stories, and from different views of different sources. Also, newspapers are read several hours after stories or events happen. The internet can publish stories within a half hour after something occurs. The LA Times was declining, as a result of the internet and TV taking away customers. Head guys were getting fired, shareholders were backing out, and people started getting worried.