What About a Newspaper?

 The NEW YORK TIMES

Since 1851 The New York Times has been a resourceful, reliable, powerful way of communicating news throughout not only New York but the entire country.  The Times, starting out in a thriving American City, quickly rose to the top of the chain for public media as they began providing the people with stock market numbers, crosswords, sports, local and even foreign news.  Without newspapers like the Times the people of the country would have never been informed of major world events such as war.

Sept 12, 2001 Headline NY Times

  However times they are a changing.  With social media, blogging, and the internet on the rise in recent years, newspaper sales are plummeting. Although The Times only costs about $2.50, about the same as most papers, many former readers have turned to quicker, more accessible ways of finding their desired articles.  It is said that newspapers such as The New York Times have begun to only write stories that are more appealing to the public eye rather than publishing what the public really needs to know.
   For example, during the time of the Bush administration as America was invading Iraq, journalist Judith Miller of the Times published multiple stories stating that opposing forces were attaining weapons of mass destruction, an atomic bomb.  These stories were just that, stories.  Miller claimed that her sources had given her the information and she reported it as it was told to her. But, as a journalist, you have to confirm your information especially in cases as serious as war!

Judith Miller NY Times

 
   I do believe there is bias in newspaper because no matter how you look at it, it is a business.  These writers and editors are competing for customers they need to have an upper hand being bias gives them just that.  Its sad that to survive that is what's necessary but it is the ugly truth.  Even after all of the controversy i don't think papers like The Times will survive much longer.  The internet is just too accessible, smart phones, laptops, and tablets are taking over it is a new generation.Why would someone purchase a newspaper when they could get online and find the information from the comfort of their home for free?  In my opinion its just a matter of time before The New York Times and other papers like it are as extinct as mammoths.