User talk:Whooks

This article seems fairly accurate regarding the role of digital journalism in current society. The power of the written word is no longer limited to the traditional journalist but is rapidly being passed to the hands of anyone with access to the Internet. Traditional publishing companies are now counting down the days when their function will become obsolete while newspapers drift in the wind as their print transforms from ink to a series of binary codes. Dr. Robert K. Logan discusses the impact of digital journalism on traditional news publishing in "Understanding New Media". He states that many of the major news providers found it very necessary to ply their trades via Internet for fear that mainstream newspapers would go the way of the dinosaurs. Critics of the digital journalistic movement may have cause to be concerned that online news is without a guiding editorial force. They feel that with the plethora of blogs and other online media, confusion may arise as to what is legitimate and what is not. Hopefully they realize that readers now have a wide source of news to choose from. They can cross reference various sources from different view points to get a multidimensional view of the world as opposed to one sided stories.