Tiffany Swan4/09/09
JMC 201
The history of newspaper goes back five centuries. In Renaissance Europe handwritten newsletters circulated privately among merchants, passing along information about everything from wars & economic conditions to social affairs. In America, the first newspaper appeared in Boston in 1690, entitled Publick Occurrences. Two more papers made thier appearance in the 1720's in Philadelphia and New York.
American newspapers failing at the fastest rate since the middle of the 20th century. Today's losses leave some communities with no newspaper and alot of people with no jobs. How will the citizens learn about whats going on in their community now? The newspapers' financial problems began before the current recession. Since 2007, newspapers have failed, declared bankruptcy or switched to online editions in Seattle, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Albuquerque, Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles,Dener,and Ann Arbor. So, what are the journalist who lost their job supposed to do? That, is a million dollar question and I feel so bad that they have to go through this bad time. What happen to the newspaper company after all those years? (Another million dollar question)
This is definetly a problem and this makes me question my future. Since I am majoring in jmc, this affects me because who's to say I won't lose my job twenty years from now? What will I do to support my family? Hopefully the journalists who lost their jobs can make a way to support their families and hopefully this doesn't happen again in other states.
This approach to the topic was very interesting to me because there are some things I agree with and some things that I don't agree with. I agree with the fact that this is an issue for future journalists. I do think that we should all look ahead in our career choices and prepare for things of this nature to occur. I also understand the frustration with people who are losing jobs due to the new era of technology and the demolishing of newspapers.
ReplyDeleteHowever, there are still many ways that people can stay informed and in some instances, more frequently infromed, without the use of newspapers. Any citizen can get a library card. This gives people free access to computers in libraries that are scattered all around cities. There is also mobile web for people and the all too familiar television news format. Online newspapers are better than the paper ones because you can stay more up to date as things unfold within news stories.