I loved what Jarvis had to say about where the news environment is going. He declared that instead of the news moving in a linear direction, it moves in an ever-developing circle. To me, that is a much more truthful way to experience the world. The human creation of a definitive beginning and end only skews the objective truth of the matter. What did benefit from the old way of one organization giving one story to one reader and it ending there was the sense of confidence and trust we could have in the information we were given. This assurance we had seemingly came from necessity, because we had no choice other than to fully take in this one sided point of view. Nowadays, one story is only one piece of a much bigger system. Therefore, we, meaning the audience, don’t have as much of an intimate connection with the article we are reading as much as we have a connection to the way we fit into this event. When given many varying and contradicting point of views, we can either trust it all as telling segments of one circle or simply trust what we take from the information (or both…). I can see how this new trend can be frightening to journalists and editors. They are losing the control they used to think of as consistent luxury in the news business. But I would like to put them at ease. Their stories are not the be-all and end-all of worldly news. Rather, stories by “official” news organization act as catalysts, pushing along this conversation we call the press-sphere.
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