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How fast information and news is being pieced together and spit out?
EXAMPLES:
1. Newspapers are going out of business in their traditional written form and now will be all online. This is indicative of the changing landscape of news.
2. Yahoo's constant changing news stories on the home page. 15 minutes ago they were covering Obama's new conference as it was happening! Now, just as Obama's press conference is ending, the headline has changed. This one creeps me out the most. Hello, anyone read the book 1984? This feels too much like changing history. Yeah, so far the headlines don't drastically change opinion but I am constantly on alert for headline that reads "Obama is an amazing leader and is doing everything fine. We are not at war." And then 10 minutes later, "President Obama is a villian who is leading the American public astray for years as we fight this ongoing war."
3. I was watching the same press conference and decided to look on Wikipedia for information about reporter Helen Thomas. Even before the conference was over this was written:
[On February 9, 2009 Thomas was present in the front row for newly elected President Obama's news conference regarding the federal bailout bill. She was even called upon by President Obama.]
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4. The overall environment in which we live due to technology. We can do everything online in a blink of an eye. It's too convenient, it requires little to no thought process, our history and opinions are changing every day and possibly every minute, there's no privacy or accountability, and other really bad things.
So what do you think?
EXAMPLES:
1. Newspapers are going out of business in their traditional written form and now will be all online. This is indicative of the changing landscape of news.
2. Yahoo's constant changing news stories on the home page. 15 minutes ago they were covering Obama's new conference as it was happening! Now, just as Obama's press conference is ending, the headline has changed. This one creeps me out the most. Hello, anyone read the book 1984? This feels too much like changing history. Yeah, so far the headlines don't drastically change opinion but I am constantly on alert for headline that reads "Obama is an amazing leader and is doing everything fine. We are not at war." And then 10 minutes later, "President Obama is a villian who is leading the American public astray for years as we fight this ongoing war."
3. I was watching the same press conference and decided to look on Wikipedia for information about reporter Helen Thomas. Even before the conference was over this was written:
[On February 9, 2009 Thomas was present in the front row for newly elected President Obama's news conference regarding the federal bailout bill. She was even called upon by President Obama.]
CRE PEE
4. The overall environment in which we live due to technology. We can do everything online in a blink of an eye. It's too convenient, it requires little to no thought process, our history and opinions are changing every day and possibly every minute, there's no privacy or accountability, and other really bad things.
So what do you think?