blog assignments

Blog Assignment #1 – The Death of Newspapers

By: Kevin Bloder

I think newspapers are dying out because television and other electronic journalism are more popular. It is getting more difficult for newspapers to survive because people can just watch the news on T.V. or hear about stuff on Facebook, msn, twitter, etc. I think we should care if newspapers no longer exist because you wouldn’t see a lot of local on T.V. and newspapers do. The advantages of getting your news on the web are that it is free and you can get more information and hear about stuff as it is happening. The disadvantages are that the web bases its information on things that everyone cares about and newspapers will show things about local news that the web doesn’t. I won’t miss newspapers because I don’t read them very much. I think many others would will though because they have been reading them for years and depend on them for news.

Blog Assignment #2 – Thinking about Journalistic Ethics

Ethics should be important to journalism because reporters need guidelines and rules to make sure they do things correctly. If journalists didn’t have ethics they wouldn’t do a very good job of reporting the news. Journalists should have rules that they must follow like the CAJ Statement of principles and ethical guidelines for example. Their reporting must be truthful, fair, and respectful. Journalists do not usually tell everything they know and that’s a big part of journalism. I think journalists should tell everything they know because it is their job to report the news and people may not know what is really going on if they didn’t report everything they knew. But that is just my opinion. They is nothing that says they have to tell everything they know. Journalists should tell all the important facts, the 5 w’s if necessary, and the things that people should be informed about. They should not have any sort of relationship between a reporter and their subject because if their subject is a friend they will try to make them look good even if they aren’t, and the opposite if the reporter doesn’t like them. Reporters should report the facts about their subject and not try to make them look good or bad because everyone will think differently about them.

Blog Assignment #3 – Ethics and Freedom of the Press

Journalists should have the freedom to report whatever they think is important to report as long as it is truthful because they can’t report everything that everyone wants but they can report what is most important. There should be some boundaries in journalism because there are expectations that a journalist must meet. A journalist must serve the public interest, act responsibly. Report truthfully and fairly if they want these freedoms. Reporters have spelt names wrong, reported untruthfully and been bias is their reporting. I think the press is free in Canada but not really free because there are things that they don’t report on that people should know. It’s more free in the community because you hear about everything. It isn’t as free in school because they can’t report on things that are inappropriate or disrespectful.