At first I thought, “But, are not the press and news the same? Are they mutually exclusive?” At the beginning of Jeff Jarvis’s “The Press Becomes the Press Sphere,” I was wondering at what he would define press, and if that would be different from news. I would have to think that they are vastly similar, if not the same. However, through his writing, I see what he is trying to say…I think.
Jarvis is attempting to say that though what we used to think of as the press relationship in news is still there, we have opened into another world where news is now influenced upon us through the uses of our peers. Now, we read what we believe to be news, but what, in all actuality, may not be related to the press at all. Our friend says to read something on some website, claiming it is news. We read it because we trust our friend, but what we read has no interrelationship with the press at all.
So, why is this bad? Well, if the press is not related to a specific “news” website, then such a website was not edited. But, what does that matter, you ask? Well, if a publication is not edited by a professional, there is no way of knowing if what you are reading is just some rogue opinion. You do not know if you should trust what you read. So, as Jeff Jarvis says, “if the news is important, it will find me.”
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