Week 5: Who Pays For Journalism?

            First of all, I thought that the group did an awesome job at showing some of the positives and negatives in who funds journalism now and in the future.  I read a couple of articles in relation to this topic, both of which are awesome reads!  The first one has the following url:  http://entertainment.time.com/2009/06/08/if-the-journalism-business-fails-who-pays-for-journalism .  It deals more with the future of journalism, and what the business model is going to adapt to if/when the current business model fails.  Some basic arguments that the article makes is that non-profit will emerge (just like you guys said!), and things of that nature will start to take over the advertising world.

            The second article that I was reading is located here:  http://gawker.com/5989885/somebody-should-figure-out-how-to-pay-for-journalism-says-guy-whose-job-it-is-to-do-that .  It’s kind of an ironic article, as eluded to by the title.  It is similar to the first article that I linked, in that it talks about the future of journalism and advertising/who is going to pay for it.

            Personally, I don’t worry too much about the future of who is going to pay for journalism, because I plan on going into the tv broadcast form of journalism, and I don’t think that will be affected much by social media and the internet.  I feel this way because tweets can replace a headline, reddit can replace newspaper, but nobody is going to be able to replace ESPN and those sort of supreme experiences that those news outlets allow you to have.  People don’t watch tv news because it’s always the breaking news source, people watch tv news because it presents the news in a way to them that no other source can present them.  TV news/sports create a presentation that no other form of media can compete with.