Well, I was not that impressed with the New York Times article assigned to our class to read and blog about (http://tinyurl.com/3e56go3) titled "Pew Media Study Shows Reliance on Many Outlets". Why was this? NYT is supposed to deliver news--not something that everyone can determine by simple observation. To me, this article was as useless as if they had written an article on how grass actually grows in dirt. Who knows, maybe they have written an article on that.
Okay, enough of my cynical behavior. We, the audience of the media, do look to TV news for simple things like weather, traffic reports, et cetera. Why? In my opinion, it is because we have always been able to trust the fact that that information would be available on the television. We can find other information (NYT rates this as the second most common means of news distribution) through the likes of conversation, Twitter posts, and text messages.
Note: Although the way that news is distributed, technology will never take over personal conversation as us humans talk when we talk due to our need for social interaction. Modern technology was built to fulfill that need. One way of distributing news may take over another way, but it will never take over good old fashioned talking.
Pew Research Center, finder of the studies written about in the Article, studies a vast amount of social topics. If you are interested please see http://pewresearch.org/ for more information on them and their studies.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is the organization partnered with Pew for the studies concerning media outlets discussed in the article. The organization's website is http://www.knightfoundation.org/ for all who are interested in their purpose.
Both organizations contribute a lot to society and despite my original reaction (see first paragraph) their findings are pretty useful when it comes to understanding who we are as a society and what we will become.
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