Feeding the News to Everyone, Every Where
Kevin Moser
These days, the media goal is to send their message to people across the globe. The world is not a place of newspapers, switchboards, and the Pony Express. Journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, etc.., have the ability to reach out and satisfy a customer in Karachi, let alone the daily subscriber in Gloucester, or the 57 year reader on Staten Island. The tools available for media outlets today are simply incredible. Breaking news leaves an iPad in the hands of a Times reporter standing on 33rd street, bounces off of a few satellites, and lands on your smartphone 1,031 miles away in Des Moines in less than two seconds. Think Marconi ever thought that to be possible?
A long time ago, in a galaxy...right around the corner?
Think of the advancements in the last thirty years. Cell phones at best were half the size of a cinder block. Car phones took up half of a Mercedes Benz trunk. Journalists had to scramble to keep up with a story. Now, Twitter reporting has become faster than the news media itself. I myself was reading updates on Twitter and learning what was going on in Ferguson, MO, during the riots faster than the events could unfold on television. Do I think journalists, pseudo-reporters, and iReporters have the ability to utilize multimedia in order to feed us the happenings? Absolutely.
Photo courtesy of earthobservatory.nasa.gov
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