The News War from PBS' Frontline shined an interesting light on American journalism. As with everything else in the country, it seems that the world of journalism has been turned upside down by money. On television, news outlets report horribly on horrible news issues or they just create their own news. This drive to boost ratings has brought on alot of heat from critics. The segment about CBS' coverage of a scandal involving the president is a perfect example of what is going wrong with American tv journalism. CBS ran the report without substantiating the claim. This was a fatal mistake that permanently tarnished their reputation. CBS was uncovered by an internet blog, an up and coming media outlet.
In terms of blogging and other internet news sources it seems that mainstream media outlets loathe their very existence. It seems that bloggers have taken the spotlight off of television news. Many believe that bloggers and other "citizen journalists" do not have the resources to reliably report legitimate news. Another concern is that bloggers simply cruise the internet and add links from other outlets to their news blogs. They cannibalize other sites and gather the juiciest headlines, rather than putting in the work to report something original on a regular basis. Again, the mainstream news sources seems to be migrating to the internet because of money concerns. Television news media has seen the potential in the internet. The print journalism industry has also taken notice to the rising trend of internet reporting.
In the field of print journalism, it seems that the newspaper is nearing its end. There have been drastic measures taken to "cut their way into the future", driven yet again by money. Newspapers, much like television news, is turning to the internet to save them. Online newspapers and their attempts at "hyperlocalism" are a last ditch effort to save a dying breed of reporting.
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