Monthly Archives: January 2013

The Real Life Fountain of Youth

So has anyone ever wondered ,  if you could expand your days and feel young again ? Or even what if there really was a real life fountain of youth ?  Well in a recent article called “A New Path …

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Is More News Content Destroying Value and Relevance For Its Consumers?

The ideas discussed in my previous post that “more isn’t always better” extends further to the ideas of news and how we receive it. Some people might argue that the more news the better because it means we are more …

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American Journalism is Dying

Well, maybe not dying. But it certainly isn’t in great shape. For example, let’s compare recent headlines; One from Fox News, operating out of New York, and one from Al Jazeera, operating out of Qatar.

Fox News:

“Obama vs. Fox

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Too Much Information…Too Little Time

I’m beginning to struggle with the amount of information I’m receiving day after day. It is enough already. I have to stay up to date with whatever the buzz is, but there is simply not enough time. I am definitely …

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News Flash! The Robot is the New Human

Whenever I watch shows from the 80’s or the 90’s they all usually contain a surreal episode about the “future” where we having flying cars and robots serving us dinner and cute electronic puppy named gigabyte that eats hard disk …

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Journalists: Bringing us the news that really matters

 

According to Nordenson’s article Overload! Journalism’s Battle for Relevance in an Age of Too Much Information, journalists aren’t going anywhere. This is good news for me because journalism may be in my future. This is good news to others …

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The Downfall of going to 100% digital Textbooks

School text books are a very large expense that college students like myself have while in college on top of the tuition, lab, technology and whatever kind of fee that university like to take on to make college more expensive. …

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The changing face of American journalism

American journalism is rapidly changing in this day and age, most media conglomerates are downsizing the news departments and getting their news from wire services and other sources. Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson stated in their article The Reconstruction …

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Overload: Are you truly a Multi-tasker?

In an age where everyone believes they are great multi-taskers and are able to retain large amounts of information in little to no time is the greatest fallacy of them all. Studies have shown that people who think they are …

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Does too much information make staying relevant difficult?

In this day and age, there is so much information out there, that as a journalist it is so hard to determine what is important verse what is not. Not only that, but to every person, different things are important. …

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