To the web or not to the web?
As a child, my parents apprently knew that I wanted to be a journalist because they gave me a fake newspaper that I could create all on my own, most likely from Toys-R-Us. It had a news section, entertainment section and even a sports section–though at the time the sport section was filled with what Ken and Barbie were doing (my sister’s dolls I swear).
Back then, who would have known that the newspaper is a dying art and that the media is moving to a new zip code, and it happens to be Http://www.com.
Is it the best idea for news to become digital when facts are so easily fabricated and no one knows exactly where the news came from? The web is a vast, seemingly endless universe and I find it scary to think that one can get lost in the onslaught of news and opinions.
With newspapers, we are able to quickly identify who is writing it, where they got their sources from and even the address of where the paper was published. The web however is more deviously clouded in mystery. Sites like Wikipedia can be edited by almost anyone and HTML codes are easily hacked and altered. Who knows if what we are reading is correct.
If the media is really becoming a true multi-media then let us keep the multi part and continue with the print news. Apart from having it physically in front of us, we can have something to do on those long CTA rides.
