Week 5 - 'I'm with you on the digital revolution, it's the lack of journalism I can't face'

'I'm with you on the digital revolution, it's the lack of journalism I can't face'
https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/oct/11/im-with-you-on-the-digital-revolution-its-the-lack-of-journalism-i-cant-face

• A local newspaper called The Citizen that had been published for 90 years has stopped being published - it was a paid for title based in Laconia 
• Arlinghaus says that "no one gets their news from twitter, even if they think they do, they don't"
• In Arlinghaus’s view, without the newspaper’s reporters “none of the local stories would have been covered, printed or rebroadcast. No one would have tweeted the story.” No-one would have had a story to post on Facebook.
• "followed in the highlighted paper word for word — not that he credited any of the reporters or the paper itself. People listening didn’t get their news from the radio. Ultimately, they got their news from the newspaper reporters."
• Social media reacts to news, it doesn’t find it.

Here we can see that the newspaper industry is indeed suffering, it shows that institutions that have been around for many years are threatened by new and digital media, however it also puts into perspective the fact that all the stories are actually from newspapers themselves and journalists/columnists who write for newspapers. I think the fact that this news is just being regurgitated on different platforms just reveals how our generation is lazy and cannot afford to look for their news and provide quality new, news angles.