Frontline: "What's Happening to the News?"

In the first part of the documentary, it shows that people get their news differently from news past. It is not surprising that The Daily Show on Comedy Central is one of the most popular shows for people to get their news, its funny and times are changing. People are making the transition from reading newspapers to getting their news from funny shows and going online to find what they want to hear then and there.

I also strongly believe that a lot of news channels are dumbing down to what they consider news. I think news should be about what is going on in the world rather than putting news stories to just catch the reader's eye or odd awkward stories that dont really matter. There are a lot of things going on in this world that I think people should be educated on and learn about. The sad part is that many news channels are doing this just to build their revenues and gain money. Instead of sticking to the traditional journalism that has been around forever, they are changing journalism entirely, its not even journalism anymore and it has morphed into something else. These news channels would rather just make money and report retarded stories than report on something that really matters in this world.

Another thing that I found interesting is that no one really wants to preserve the newspapers or help them at all. Google relies on newspapers and what they support because thats what they show through their search engines. Yahoo! didnt even want to help at all and said that going online is the way that people are moving and to help the newspapers isnt worth their time or money. Its really sad that perserving newspapers and helping them isnt even being considered anymore. Making money is more important to these news stations and I believe that even though saving the newspapers is something that should be done, the generation is changing and people are getting their news more and more online. It is a change that is going to happen no matter what, unless there is something done to help both.