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Re: 25 Big Questions for the Future of Journalism and PR

patrickomalley — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:10:01 -0000

This is a great point, technology has certainly allowed people to get all of their social addictions filled online.
Do you believe if we used the Internet as more of a solid source of reliable information that we would be more social and intelligent?

Re: 25 Big Questions for the Future of Journalism and PR

patrickomalley — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:04:32 -0000

People bring this point up a lot when talking about the internet. I think we can bypass this by starting a trend of placing a section of your Journalism or blog site for credentials. We could even boycott any bloggers that have no credentials, and boot them off the internet for wasting our time.

Re: 25 Big Questions for the Future of Journalism and PR

patrickomalley — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:57:23 -0000

Question #2
The days of picking up your paper and knowing what's going on in the world are over. It is so much easier to turn on a TV and have someone telling you what's going on. Those two sentences are very overstated facts but they're true. So the question is why am I going to buy a newspaper when I'm paying for cable? The thing I believe Newspapers can capitalize on is the "meat and potatoes" of a given case. As much appeal as TV has it is lacking in giving informative content. Newspapers and journalists, I believe, need to understand that it isn't about them! At the end of the day everyone really only cares about themselves, so If I can pick up a paper and get a mouthful of straight facts and historical clarity I am going to be so happy. I don't care about your opinion, no one does, honestly unless the person is up your alley, your mind is already SET. That's why we cal it a mindset. I'm hesitant to share my opinion on this because I want to capitalize on it, but if newspapers would focus less on opinion and more on informing the public, people would rush to pick up a paper.