Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Extra Extra!

Two important changes I believe the newspaper need to survive is link economy because it allow the newspaper move to the internet. Once they do move then it's a whole different format and that has to change as well. Big newspaper companies like Los Angeles Times and New York Times are going to be able to survive without being in the internet but as of now every business that wants to succeed has to be linked to the internet. Small companies that are in the newspaper industry aren't going to make it unless they switch over to the social media. There are many stories being published every day through newspaper and social media which many people now rely on social media like Twitter and Facebook, etc. The format for newspaper would have to change because if they want more audience then they have be smarter on how to introduce the subject with short catchy phrases. The newspaper companies can get the audiences attention by uploading news through social media and the stories they release would instantly be viewed not by thousands but by millions of people by the next couple of hours. Newspapers are always going to take time to get printed and  distributed to the locations. That's why social media would and is a great idea for newspapers to consider. Although it might cause the companies money in the short-run but in the long-run they would get millions of viewers and generate a vast amount of revenue. As of now, young adults or college students don't keep up with media because they might be overloaded with homework or have to study for an exam and its just not their priority. One of the priority for college students is social media, that's where they generally find media. For example; there's a student waiting for class to start and they get on Facebook while class start and they go through their news feed and found out that scientists have found a cure for cancer. If it wasn't for the student waiting for class to start he/she wouldn't have known that scientists found a cure for cancer and that's why media is important for college students around the world. There is many articles that pop up on Facebook and have links to the real story, which the real story might come from New York Times and this is an example of link economy.

Topic #2

   The media isn't exceeding my expectations when it comes to immigration because when the word immigrants or immigration comes on tv, people start criticizing on Mexicans. Immigration goes far beyond our founding fathers of America, so everyone has a member in their family that immigrated to America. Nowadays mexicans are frown upon because they are gang members and they take low minimum wage jobs that nobody wants and are criminals. Not only mexicans are criminals, there are other ethnicities that are criminals but they don't get judged as bad as mexicans. Lately, Donald Trump has been a big media sensation that is running to become the next president of the U.S. He has categorized mexicans as immigrants knowing that he wife is from Slovenia and is an immigrant herself. Mexicans are not all criminals but not every race is perfect. Every race have there apples as they say but mexicans seem like a real target to media. By the looks of media it seems like everyone hates mexicans which I know that isn't true. However, a busboy that works at the Trump SoHo restaurant helped a couple of guys make a documentary of what he taught about his boss Donald Trump. In the documentary it shows the busboy name Ricardo Aca taking photos which some of us might be familiar with. The photos contained people holding sign saying "I am not a criminal" and more.

1 comment:

  1. Hey Carlos, It is sad that those things are being done and said. The freedom of expression boundaries are unfortunately different for all. I like that you believe the newspapers will survive somehow, and how passionate you are for your culture. Keep up the good work, and let's get something in the paper about your FIFA Club!

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