Journal #2- Media Audeinces

Today there are so many ways to receive news. We can get it from newspapers, magazines, television, and even the Internet. With all these media outlets to get the news from what is the best way to receive it? Well there isn't one that is necessarily better than the other but the Internet certainly has all the others beat when it comes to updating news stories fast. I was watching CNN this morning and was watching a news story on the terrible weather that is destroying parts of Atlanta. The television news story was only a couple of minutes long and they focused on the damage that the weather had caused. They showed videos of the storm and then focused on an individual home where someone was trapped in their bedroom because a tree fell on their home. It was quick and to the point, the reason for this is television has to keep our interest, because if they don't they know how easy it is for us to change the channel if we get bored. So mist television news will be short and to the point. Most stories will not last more than a couple of minutes.

After this I checked on the Internet for the same story. So i googled the story title and i received thousands of sites that had information on this story. This already proves how easy it is to find something on the Internet. We can access so may different angles and points of view on the same story with the touch of a button. I decided to check out what CNN said about the same story on their website. The story was very similar but it had a lot more details. They could go into much more specific detail because they don't have a time limit in which they are trying to fit the story. And they can always update the same article with the touch of a button.

After comparing the two different types of media, I came to the conclusion that they both serve a very important service. Neither is better than the other, although the Internet did have a lot more information, but the TV was constantly updating me on the situation throughout the newscast. The nice thing with TV is you can view videos of the event and you get it while you are watching the story unfold. And to that point I'm sure you can look up the same video on you tube. So in the future more and more news will be available on the Internet.