Friday, April 9, 2010

Citizens Part 3 and ten years from now:

CNN and its Stubborness:

Jay rosen, What CNN should do with Itself in Prime Time, March 31, 2010
(http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink)

CNN has had a downturn the first quarter of 2010 for all of its prime time television-news shows: "Anderson Cooper's 360" is losing out to re-runs from the old MSNBC's "Countdown," and yet CNN executives state they will not change or alter the way there line-up is now.  Some people would argue that the people on CNN's prime time shows are mere "hosts" and are not alligned with the majority's point of viewing audience.  They also state at NYU that audiences like hosts' to have their own opinions over "straight coverage" of hard line facts (NYU, 2010).  Another phenomenum that is occuring and will evolve ten-years from now is what NYU calls "Audience Atomization" overcome people who were once just viewrs and were tied to the centers of the powerful elite institutions of society have started to ignore the norms and use the Internet as their own atomization of the rise of social and mass media.  According to NYU, many of the viewing audience was "Tweeting" about the Academy Awards on the television (the most ever online-content); and and this is the furire of Citizens Journalism.  In ten years there will be virtual touch screen applications that float out of the media device into holograms according to NYU; and people in 50 years will probably have a chip inserted into their arms and the Internet will know every place they have ever shopped or eat at, and or browsed; in addition, credit cards will be obsolete in ten years by using our cell phones with a secret pin to purchase 3-D images of everything there is to buy and will remind us when we return to a store what we purchased last time we visited the store into our ear's only to hear (NYU, 2010).

Citizens Journalism and Journalism in 10 years Part 2:

This is a picture from a Cohan Late night Show from You Tube (2009) and this is what the future is suppose to look like in the year 3000.

Dominant Search Engines and Journalism:  In an article from "Reuters.com, "How will Journalism Survive the Internet Age? by Adsense, et al, December 11, 2009, by Mr. Murdoch:

Mr. Murdoch (2009) states that the dominant search engines are buying up other newspaper archives and databases of many journalits' articles and posting them for advertisements and making profit off the stolen article and not sharing the profits to the authors'.  This makes the more powerful-organizations to increase their "Long-Tail of Distribution" into new niches, and use AdSense on people's blog sites to make a huge profit.  But some news outlets are trying to invent new ways to counteract this intellectual theft from these search-engine pioneers by using the "B2B content network that the planet needs now-and that is what they are building on a 3rd party content to maximize their profits and try to stop the illegal distribution." (Reuters, 2009). This B2B isn't to block search engines or publishers it is about preserving integrity and syndication of their content for creative-talented authors' to endure. 

Citizen Journalism and Journalism in Ten Years:

This is how much Citizen Journalism has expotentially grown as you can see on the graphs above; in just two years the hours that the average audience has increased from a little over two hours to over five hours online.

Plus, the Unique audience size that has social networking sites and special niches of the "Long Tail of Distribution" has dramatically increased, too.  Citizen Journalists' is everyone who uses the internet: whether you just surf and read articles and post a short "Tweet" is a citizen journalist.  This has led to the demise of a lot of newspaper organizations to either change the way they market themselves, or they demise into bankruptcy.  The "Atlantic Magazine posted an article by Cyra Master called: Media Insiders say Internet Hurts Journalism, (2009); and she states that a poll was conducted to very prestigous individuals of News Outlets (popular) and tha 2/3 of the respondents were already concerned with Citizens' Journalism and the Internet.  Master (2009) stated that the participants of the survey the costs of journalism online costs more to operate than publishing or to televise.  Some of the prominent News Producers according to this poll, state that the internet has put many respectable News Outlets out-of-business and start-up costs for a new or existing News outlet is very expensive to operate on the Internet.  In harsh-regime countries where they cesnsor content on the internet loses credibility of the news that is being reported through rumors or distortion of the facts.  Journalism in this poll as been criticized for as just a "catch-and-grab" quick snapshot to capture a viewer on the internet and losses its integrity of journalism.  On the other hand, Master (2009) suggests that the Internet has helped some journalists to writing or discussing facts in "real time" pressures; and this opens up the journalism profession to recruit new-talented "free-lancers" with a fresh voice on the Internet" (Masters, 2009, p.2).  Master (2009) also states that some new slang words for journalism is called "micro-coverage (scandal, poll-readings, up-and-down, on the other side).  Take for instance, the Obama campaign news coverage online was so positive and it was everywhere!  Then when President Obama is in office now; he gets more bad-press coverage because of the Citizen Journalists' that criticize him online and the media outlets want to go where the audience flows and this leads to distortion of the true facts of the news story!