Internet and the Media

The internet has hugely impacted the way media reports news.  Before tv and computers, people discovered what was happening in current events through print.  There was most likely a  24 hour time delay unless a special edition was printed.  Most found out about the event after the fact.  Then came tv which reported the news in a more timely fashion because there was the morning news, the midday news, and the evening news. The one stipulation about the tv was you had to be near one.  Now you can watch the news from your desk at work through the computer.  As everything this can be good and it can be bad.  It is good because it is convenient and timely.  You can download video clips which can be live.  For example, you could watch the President's inagguration from your computer live.  The bad effect is that newspaper companies lost a lot of money causing people to lose their jobs.  Many of the people that work for the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe have been in the warehouses for years and that is one of the only traits they know so that can hurt them.  This subject hits me personally because a lot of the males in my family worked in the newspaper factory.  When I was 18 I worked there for a couple of weeks but left because it bored me.  People criticized me because they suppoosedly once you were hired "it was a job for life" and I left it.  No one realized what the internet would do to the newspaper industry and luckily it never affected my job role.  Unfortunetly it has affected some of my family members