Homework - Build the Wall Analysis

Section 1 

Within the first section of the article, I believe that David is talking about both newspapers and the internet. He is using them and comparing them for example stating things about each for example internet is free unlike newspapers as customers may have to pay for certain once. Accessing the new on the internet can be done through news websites like the bbc. However reading news from a news papers is totally different thing from reading new from a laptop screen for example some people may still want to read an actual newspaper than finding out the new over the internet. This goes along with the fact ever though we have access to new on the internet for quit a while help still read newspapers at the minute.

Section 2 

In this section of the newspaper article is about how time and how it is a enemy for newspapers.  however, and the wariness and caution with which the Times and The Post approach the issue reveal not only how slow industry leaders have been to accurately assess the realities, but how vulnerable one national newspaper is to the other. Should the Times go behind a pay curtain while the Post remains free, or vice versa. I believe that from this article it shows that web sites have combined to batter paid print circulation figures, more people are reading the product of America’s newspapers than ever before. Certainly more of them are reading the Times (nearly 20 million average unique visitors monthly) and the Post (more than 10 million monthly unique visitors)

Section 3 

This section shows the percentage of sun reader which is 10 per cent of the existing 210,000 Baltimore Sun reader. The questions that this raises is why pay for subscription for example who pay a subscription rate less than half the price of home delivery, or roughly $10, would represent about $2.5 million a year. This section is all about the pay wall and wanting people to pay.

Section 4 

Lastly within this section is all about how having the pay wall can be a risk. For example many things will be attached to this example of this are without local readers getting free national, international, and cultural reporting from the national papers,


Overall, in my opinion I wouldn't want to pay for the news when I am able to access it online for free.  People still access the new through newspapers which seem to be dying however are still being produced which shows that people still read them. The whole pay wall situation is a risk as some people may want to pay however me personal wouldn't want to.

- If news were not free, there would be enough people willing to pay for it to cover the cost of producing it. But suppose the New York Times suddenly started charging for online access; although it is a great newspaper, I probably wouldn't pay for it. There are just too many free alternatives that are almost as good. Even if (for example) no other online news source were as good as the Times, the remaining news sources will collectively fill the gap.
The economic parlance, you have goods which are near perfect substitutes. If I can't read Paul Krugman's column, I can go read some other noble prize winning economist's latest available(and accessible) column. Likewise, if I can't read Thomas Freidman, I can get the same kind of hype from a used car lot advertisement.

This statement shows, that news papers companies may have to have change their option to have for example free online news. Rather than producing actual newspapers as this cost money and news on the internet can be accessed for free. 

The lack of imagination on display in this article is jaw-dropping.

If, in five years, any part of this article can be looked back upon as anything other than a completely wrong-headed assessment of the state of the industry, if a reasonable person will be able to look back from 2014 on any of the suggestions and say either, "That would have been a good thing to try" or "Thank goodness they did that," I will eat a Baltimore Orioles hat while standing naked in Times Square.

#14 Posted by King Kaufman on Sat 18 Jul 2009 at 04:13 AM

This comment shows that newspapers aren't dying as still available to the public, if newspapers had dyed out then no newspapers would be produced and everybody would get their news from teh internet. 

The impact of new and digital media in the news

Topic Area 
News 

Impact on audience 
- can access news easily 
- audience can report news on camera phones "citizen journalist"


Impact on institution
- audience number one down for tradition institution (therefore profit down too) 
- advertising has been taken away from news by google and other NDM companies  


Link to theorise and debates
- paretos's law 
- globalisation 
- pluralism 
- Theinformation age 

New and digital media articles

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/27/snapchat-may-be-exposed-hackers

This article is about how snap chat user number can be exposed to hackers. “Snap chat has a feature where it will grab all the numbers from your address book, upload them to their server [which is pretty bad by itself] and suggests you friends,” This may show a concern for snap chat users as their privacy is being taken away from users. 

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2013/jun/10/android-apple-monday-note

This article is about the apple iphone and Samsung. Both apple and Samsung have been competing against each other for quite a while. This is down to the fact that they are 

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/observer-editorial-digital-privacy

There are always concerns about new technology. In your view, what are the possible benefits and problems attached to the Internet?

There are always concerns about new technology. In your view, what are the possible benefits and problems attached to the Internet? 

You must include the following:

In this essay I will be talking about the befits and the problems that are attached with the internet.There are many people that use the internet and the change from 1995 to 2013, A fifth of the world’s population can now go online. That figure that has risen worldwide from just 25 million in 1995 to 1.4 billion today. This shows that the internet

Their are many positive things that the internet provide us with. For example A fifth of the world’s population can now go online. That figure that has risen worldwide from just 25 million in 1995 to 1.4 billon today. This shows that they can access the information that is provided to them.

The good things about the internet is that every one has access to it. 

 Along with the good things that the internet provided, their are also problems as well. For example A fifth of the world’s population can now go online. That figure that has risen worldwide from just 25 million in 1995 to 1.4 billon today. This can be a problem due to the fact that they will be able to access lot of information. Information that is provided from the internet may not always be accurate. A 2005 study by Sonia Livingstone and Magdalena Bober found that the majority of students trusted online information as much as they trusted information in printed books 38% of UK pupils aged 9 to 19 never questioned the accuracy of online information and only 10% said they were sceptical of it 66% of 9 to 19 year old's who went online regularly had not been given any guidance about how to judge the accuracy of online information. This can be worrying as these are students how are most likely trying to find out

information on the internet for school work etc. If this information may not be accurate and if people find it to be as accurate as books then this will be a major concern. As students will be leaning inaccurate information

People miss use the internet 

one in six queries to search engines were about sex in 1997, but by 2001 the figure had fallen to one in 12 (Spink et al 2002)

Wikipedia can contain serious errors. For example in 2005,Wikipedia incorrectly stated that the journalist John Seigenthaler had been involved in the assassination of the US president John F. 

Tanya Byron in her review for the government on children’s use of the internet and videogames (2008) reported that 57% of 9-19 year-olds had come into contact with pornographic material online, 38% in the form of a pornographic pop-up advert

“Pareto’s Law” states that a minority of media producers always serve a majority of consumers. An example of this is 10% of the movies released in any given year account for roughly half the box office revenue, and just ten companies publish over 60% of all the books read.