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Jan 2002
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Again thank you to all who took the time to answer the two questionnaires.
I have now almost completed writing my dissertation. As you have shown interest in the subject of online news consumption, I believe some of you might be interested in reading what the result of your answers is.
At the same time, I am interested if any of you have thoughts on the subject. Thus, I will post my dissertation here now! If you have any comments, please feel free to post here, I will appreciate it!
Again, thanks to all who participated!
View Dissertation
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thamis
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Jan 2002
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Here are my answers as an example:
(1) Which news media would you define to be most important to you (newspaper, tv, internet, etc.)? Why?
I mainly read internet news because I can't be bothered to buy a newspaper everyday, internet news is free, AND I can read any international newspaper I want to, not only my local ones.
(2) If your answer to (1) was not internet, define the internet’s position in news gathering for you.
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(3) What type of news do you mainly read on the internet? (Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Humour, Tech, etc.)
I'm most interested in weird, humourous stories, but I also like to read about international news. You get a much better international picture on the internet than in TV or newspapers.
(4) Where do you think news is most credible (online, newspapers, TV…), and on what outlets (blogs, forums, NY Times, National Enquirer, CNN…)?
I think websites of offline newspapers (nytimes.com, ft.com, chicagotribune.com, etc) are most credible.
(5) Do you read blogs? How often, in relation to traditional media consumption?
I read blogs seldomly. I think blogs usually offer the opinionated view of one person. This can be interesting, for example when you read blogs from people who're in Iraq. It's a much closer look!
(6) What types of blogs interest you?
Blogs of people is regions of crisis, as well as humourous blogs.
(7) Respond to this statement:
“The journalist of the twenty-first century will need to become a much more skilful storyteller, one who can not only weave together the facts of an event or process but connect those facts to a much wider set of contextualizing events and circumstances.” (Pavlik, J. V., Journalism and New Media, p. 218)
Don't want to answer.
(8) Do you think first-hand accounts are closer to the truth than a carefully crafted news story?
Don't want to answer.
(9) Have you ever contacted a TV station or paper about their news reporting (critique, correction, etc)? Why? What was the response? Is it worthwhile?
Nope.
(10) Have you ever contacted an online publication? What was the response there?
Yes, no response.
(11) Can you think of an online news site that uses links effectively?
Wired.com
(12) Have you ever sent a news story to your friends by email? What type of story was it? Why that story?
Usually humourous stories, sometimes stories that I know interest that specific person.
(13) Do you discuss news more in your online community or in your real-life community?
I discuss current affairs online and offline.
(14) Are you a news junkie or do you feel information overload?
Don't want to answer.
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Agathon
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Leafs 4TW!! - CPA
Dec 2002
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As you may guess, I have a low opinion of the media.
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(1) Which news media would you define to be most important to you (newspaper, tv, internet, etc.)? Why? |
The internet. Most of it is crap, but there is not the social expectation that it will be true, as there is with traditional media, which are crap.
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(2) If your answer to (1) was not internet, define the internets position in news gathering for you. |
I answered "internet" to #1
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(3) What type of news do you mainly read on the internet? (Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Humour, Tech, etc.) |
Politics, Sports, Computers, Weird Sex Stuff (i.e. "Seattle Man Arrested in Gerbil Incident!").
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(4) Where do you think news is most credible (online, newspapers, TV), and on what outlets (blogs, forums, NY Times, National Enquirer, CNN)? |
Anarchist magazines. The Grauniad. The BBC. The New York Times admitted it was completely FOS over the Iraq thing, so what's the point reading it?
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(5) Do you read blogs? How often, in relation to traditional media consumption? |
Multiple times a day. More than traditional media.
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(6) What types of blogs interest you? |
The ones by lonely, weird girls who confess their sex fantasies and post titillating pictures of themselves.
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(7) Respond to this statement:
The journalist of the twenty-first century will need to become a much more skilful storyteller, one who can not only weave together the facts of an event or process but connect those facts to a much wider set of contextualizing events and circumstances. (Pavlik, J. V., Journalism and New Media, p. 218) |
What a steaming pile of crap. Who taught this cretin how to write?
The journalist of the twenty first century will be irrelevant. Software will enable ordinary people to do their own reporting. Why bother reading the account of some hack who's jetted into a tornado devastated town when you can read the responses of a long term resident?
I suppose journalists will continue to write op-ed. That just means more of the pretentious, ill-informed bollocks that we get now.
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(8) Do you think first-hand accounts are closer to the truth than a carefully crafted news story? |
Not necessarily.
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(9) Have you ever contacted a TV station or paper about their news reporting (critique, correction, etc)? Why? What was the response? Is it worthwhile? |
Yes. No response - perhaps because my email was mainly comprised of obscenities.
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(10) Have you ever contacted an online publication? What was the response there? |
No.
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(11) Can you think of an online news site that uses links effectively? |
I can't think of more than half a dozen web sites that use links effectively (and one of those is wikipedia). Most online news sites apart from Google's suck big time.
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(12) Have you ever sent a news story to your friends by email? What type of story was it? Why that story? |
"Seattle Man Arrested in Gerbil Incident!"
No. Seriously. I've sent the odd thing, but there is no discernable pattern to the contents of my sendings.
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(13) Do you discuss news more in your online community or in your real-life community? |
Both.
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(14) Are you a news junkie or do you feel information overload? |
Both. It depends what day it is.
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of the Krauts
Mar 2000
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(1) Which news media would you define to be most important to you (newspaper, tv, internet, etc.)? Why?
- I prefer net news over tv news because I can choose the topics more freely online, while on tv I have to watch what the tv news show me, in the order they want. The Net has overall much more to offer, and I can inform myself more selectively. I prefer net news over newspaper because I don't want to buy newspapers everyday, and I remember with horror the time I did that (mainly because of the tons of old newspapers at home  )
(2) If your answer to (1) was not internet, define the internet’s position in news gathering for you.
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(3) What type of news do you mainly read on the internet? (Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Humour, Tech, etc.)
- Mainly politics, other types only in some special cases
(4) Where do you think news is most credible (online, newspapers, TV…), and on what outlets (blogs, forums, NY Times, National Enquirer, CNN…)?
- Hm, I don't think there's such a biiig diff between serious online sources, and serious other sources, with some exceptions (I'm not that much into private blogs, and I noticed that even serious online sources sometimes make mistakes, mainly when they try to be very fast)
(5) Do you read blogs? How often, in relation to traditional media consumption?
- as said above, no. Except monkspider's blog for stories about Mongols and the Second Reich
(6) What types of blogs interest you?
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(7) Respond to this statement:
“The journalist of the twenty-first century will need to become a much more skilful storyteller, one who can not only weave together the facts of an event or process but connect those facts to a much wider set of contextualizing events and circumstances.” (Pavlik, J. V., Journalism and New Media, p. 218)
- I thought this goes for any good journalist
(8) Do you think first-hand accounts are closer to the truth than a carefully crafted news story?
- Not neccessarily
(9) Have you ever contacted a TV station or paper about their news reporting (critique, correction, etc)? Why? What was the response? Is it worthwhile?
- Never contacted them, so can't say anything about it
(10) Have you ever contacted an online publication? What was the response there?
- No
(11) Can you think of an online news site that uses links effectively?
- Define "effectively" here
(12) Have you ever sent a news story to your friends by email? What type of story was it? Why that story?
- No
(13) Do you discuss news more in your online community or in your real-life community?
- Yes, although during the last time I participated less in big debates, mainly due to a lack of time
(14) Are you a news junkie or do you feel information overload?
- Neither 
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ACS CTP1/2 Manager & Civ4 Co-Manager
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Hengelo, The Netherlands
Nov 1999
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Originally posted by thamis
(1) Which news media would you define to be most important to you (newspaper, tv, internet, etc.)? Why? |
Different things for different purposes. For local news and sport the newspaper, for domestic politics tv, for international and technology news internet. And for any breaking news the internet as well, as I only read my paper and watch tv once a day, while I'm online pretty much whenever I'm awake 
If I had to choose one, I'd say internet is the most important one, on account of the breaking news thing.
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(2) If your answer to (1) was not internet, define the internet’s position in news gathering for you. |
See above.
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(3) What type of news do you mainly read on the internet? (Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Humour, Tech, etc.) |
Mostly international news, domestic news of other countries (mostly UK, US), technology news. Weird humourous news as well.
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(4) Where do you think news is most credible (online, newspapers, TV…), and on what outlets (blogs, forums, NY Times, National Enquirer, CNN…)? |
No one source is ever very credible. You get the best picture by comparing the same news by different outlets. If I had to pick one source, I'd say the BBC (both online and offline), but they have their biases.
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(5) Do you read blogs? How often, in relation to traditional media consumption? |
No. Well, I read Oerdin's blog when he was in Iraq, but that was only because I know him and care about what happens to him.
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(6) What types of blogs interest you? |
See above.
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“The journalist of the twenty-first century will need to become a much more skilful storyteller, one who can not only weave together the facts of an event or process but connect those facts to a much wider set of contextualizing events and circumstances.” (Pavlik, J. V., Journalism and New Media, p. 218) |
I disagree, I'd rather have cold, hard facts, we don't have enough of that. This 'storytelling' leads to emotional and biased journalism, which is evil. In essence contextualising facts is good, but usually they are contextualised only as a way to justify some moral/political viewpoint of the author, which is evil. I have this naive opinion that journalists should be objective and reliable  I mean, *I* can tell the difference between fact and speculation, between objectivity and bias, but 90% of the people out there can't and will regard a nice 'story' as THE truth.
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(8) Do you think first-hand accounts are closer to the truth than a carefully crafted news story? |
Depends on the source. Generally speaking, both sources can provided valuable insights, but one source on its own is rarely entirely objective and truthful (as they say in law enforcement and science: one witness is no witness).
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(9) Have you ever contacted a TV station or paper about their news reporting (critique, correction, etc)? Why? What was the response? Is it worthwhile? |
Yes, the BBC did a news report on the CtP2 source code once it was released, but the report contained a few errors, which I asked them to correct (don't remember the exact details). Never got a response, which of course I thought was a bit disappointing and unprofessional, but since for the BBC is was a very minor issue (it was a rather short report on a rather obscure subject) I can't say I blame them.
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(10) Have you ever contacted an online publication? What was the response there? |
I have reported news tips on Civ/gaming-related topics on a number of occasions (both to mainstream news and gaming sites). Sometimes I don't hear anything, sometimes they'll post a news item (sometimes with, sometimes without crediting/thanking me).
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(11) Can you think of an online news site that uses links effectively? |
Apolyton? 
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(12) Have you ever sent a news story to your friends by email? What type of story was it? Why that story? |
No. If something interesting happens I might provide a link over IM (ICQ, MSN) if someone who might be interested happens to be online, and I've occassionally posted threads on Apolyton or other forums. Usually just stories that might get an interesting discussion going or that I would like to hear someone else's viewpoint on.
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(13) Do you discuss news more in your online community or in your real-life community? |
Yes. Then again, there's a fair bit of overlap between the two. Email/IM/etc is a good way to keep in touch with RL friends
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Somewhere in the middle. Want to keep up-to-date on what's happening, but I tend to lose interest on the big stories after a while, as it's usually just rehashing the same old crap. I mean, how often can you say that Bush screwed up in Iraq but is a good christian and that Kerry is (or isn't) a Vietnam hero and still pretend it's news?
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Mar 1999
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(1) Which news media would you define to be most important to you (newspaper, tv, internet, etc.)? Why?
TV for two reasons:
a. Its immediacy, its impact.
b. Here in the US, sections of "the news" have been broken down into their own channels - here in Knoxville we have two channels that bring you weather, 4 channels that will bring you sports, 4 channels will bring us local news, and 4-12 channels (depending upon time of day) wil bring you national or international news.
(2) If your answer to (1) was not internet, define the internet’s position in news gathering for you.
Its OK... I'll check on CNN.com every couple of days, but other than that I don't bother with internet news that much, other than stock quotes.
(3) What type of news do you mainly read on the internet? (Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Humour, Tech, etc.)
None. I do message boards, and that's about it. Stuff I'm talking about in message boards, like boxofficemojo.com, linked articles, leads me to online news services, but never do I stay there.
(4) Where do you think news is most credible (online, newspapers, TV…), and on what outlets (blogs, forums, NY Times, National Enquirer, CNN…)?
The news is most credible when it is being written in the history books, about 2 centuries later.
(5) Do you read blogs? How often, in relation to traditional media consumption?
No. Except for DanS's - he's linked to his a couple of times.
(6) What types of blogs interest you?
None, really.
(7) Respond to this statement:
“The journalist of the twenty-first century will need to become a much more skilful storyteller, one who can not only weave together the facts of an event or process but connect those facts to a much wider set of contextualizing events and circumstances.” (Pavlik, J. V., Journalism and New Media, p. 218)
Successful journalists were always good storytellers, by which I define as the ability to take an event and weave a narrative flow out of it.
(8) Do you think first-hand accounts are closer to the truth than a carefully crafted news story?
It's the blind man telling you about the elephant in both cases. Both have their uses, in their own fashion.
(9) Have you ever contacted a TV station or paper about their news reporting (critique, correction, etc)? Why? What was the response? Is it worthwhile?
No.
(10) Have you ever contacted an online publication? What was the response there?
No.
(11) Can you think of an online news site that uses links effectively?
Apolyton.
(12) Have you ever sent a news story to your friends by email? What type of story was it? Why that story?
A couple of things to Laura.
(13) Do you discuss news more in your online community or in your real-life community?
Online.
(14) Are you a news junkie or do you feel information overload?
There are other options, you know. I don't feel information overload because I can always turn the damn TV/computers/etc off.
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La Ferté sous Jouarre France
Jan 2001
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(1) Which news media would you define to be most important to you?
Gossip. I mean, people talking about stuff. They tend to filter the uninteresting tidbits and concentrate on what's actually intersting. You don't get fresh news that way, though.
(2) If your answer to (1) was not internet, define the internet’s position in news gathering for you.
Internet is good for finding out things in detail when I'm interested, because it's possible to look for many source of information without moving or going to buy yet another paper or waiting for the tv news hous or whatever.
(3) What type of news do you mainly read on the internet? (Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Humour, Tech, etc.)
Tech mostly, sports and politics a little.
(4) Where do you think news is most credible (online, newspapers, TV…), and on what outlets (blogs, forums, NY Times, National Enquirer, CNN…)?
A few sources of info are reliable (AFP...) but mostly I read blogs from here and there, articles from there and some other place and fora. The most opinionated the best because you know where the bias are and you can filter by reading news with the opposite bias.
(5) Do you read blogs? How often, in relation to traditional media consumption?
Yes, but frequency varies widely. It remains small with regards to other media.
(6) What types of blogs interest you?
Just about anything.
(7) Respond to this statement:
“The journalist of the twenty-first century will need to become a much more skilful storyteller, one who can not only weave together the facts of an event or process but connect those facts to a much wider set of contextualizing events and circumstances.” (Pavlik, J. V., Journalism and New Media, p. 218)
Does that mean the journalist is supposed to think so I don't have to?
(8) Do you think first-hand accounts are closer to the truth than a carefully crafted news story?
Yes they are closer by definition of first-hand. They are not necessarily more accurate or unbiased, but at least they let you think about what happened better.
(9) Have you ever contacted a TV station or paper about their news reporting (critique, correction, etc)? Why? What was the response? Is it worthwhile?
No.
(10) Have you ever contacted an online publication? What was the response there?
Can't remember, but maybe.
(11) Can you think of an online news site that uses links effectively?
No.
(12) Have you ever sent a news story to your friends by email? What type of story was it? Why that story?
No.
(13) Do you discuss news more in your online community or in your real-life community?
Quite balanced.
(14) Are you a news junkie or do you feel information overload?
I feel more on the overload side, but the problem is that most media will repeat the same stuff and some interesting news don't get past that filter, thus when I'm interested in something I delve, but I don't buy "general" news.
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Dec 2001
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(1) Internet. TV is full of crap (ads, entertainment referred as "news"). Newspapers are expensive, tedious to read, and usually are biased. Not that sites around the 'net ain't biased, but it's easy to browse different sites around, searching over the same articles from different newspapers is slow.
(3) Uhh, news? World events, global political situation, events which may affect me somehow.
(4) I currently value news.bbc.co.uk as the most credible major source around. I often end up browsing biased underground sites such as the Drudge Report.
(5) Not at all, really.
(6) See (5).
(7) That's not a question: There's nothing to respond. I don't like sexed-up articles if it means twisting facts, but it seems to be fairly common these days.
(8) Depends. You have to know the 'first-hand account' and it's motives in order to answer "yes" here, otherwise no.
(9) No and generally no: If it can't get it's facts straight, then it's a clear sign which indicates that I have to stop reading it.
(10) No.
(11) Effectively, yes. To their fullest potential? I'm not sure.
(12) No.
(13) I don't really have any 'community' IRL.
(14) Information overload? Uhh, not really, I guess. Always eager to learn more.
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Aug 2005
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(1) Which news media would you define to be most important to you (newspaper, tv, internet, etc.)? Why?
Internet. I go to a military school out in the middle of no where. I don't have access to TV and there isn't good radio reception. Also, although I could get a newspaper subscription, that does cost money and I don't feel like spending it. I actually work for the school newspaper and get money from that
(3) What type of news do you mainly read on the internet? (Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Humour, Tech, etc.)
Usually either sports or national news. Or I find out what's happening back in Houston.
(4) Where do you think news is most credible (online, newspapers, TV…), and on what outlets (blogs, forums, NY Times, National Enquirer, CNN…)?
Sports radio stations...not really and reason to bend the truth and if someone is wrong, people will call up or e-mail in to correct them.
(5) Do you read blogs? How often, in relation to traditional media consumption?
Not really.
(6) What types of blogs interest you?
Nothing really.
(7) Respond to this statement:
“The journalist of the twenty-first century will need to become a much more skilful storyteller, one who can not only weave together the facts of an event or process but connect those facts to a much wider set of contextualizing events and circumstances.” (Pavlik, J. V., Journalism and New Media, p. 218)
It's wrong. Sounds like doing that would just add fluff in at leaat 95% of news. And adding unnecessary text in articles costs money...
(8) Do you think first-hand accounts are closer to the truth than a carefully crafted news story?
Most of the time, no
(9) Have you ever contacted a TV station or paper about their news reporting (critique, correction, etc)? Why? What was the response? Is it worthwhile?
Nope...I'm too lazy too
(10) Have you ever contacted an online publication? What was the response there?
Nope...I'm too lazy too....well, actually I've talked to Markos and Dan in the past
(11) Can you think of an online news site that uses links effectively?
Not off hand. Apolyton is pretty good at it I guess.
(12) Have you ever sent a news story to your friends by email? What type of story was it? Why that story?
I know I have...mostly just humorous stuff.
(13) Do you discuss news more in your online community or in your real-life community?
Real-life
(14) Are you a news junkie or do you feel information overload?
I guess news junkie
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Jul 2003
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(1) Which news media would you define to be most important to you (newspaper, tv, internet, etc.)? Why?
The Internet. It's the one I use the most.
(2) If your answer to (1) was not internet, define the internet’s position in news gathering for you.
NA
(3) What type of news do you mainly read on the internet? (Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Humour, Tech, etc.)
Politics.
(4) Where do you think news is most credible (online, newspapers, TV…), and on what outlets (blogs, forums, NY Times, National Enquirer, CNN…)?
Newspapers, incl newspapers' webpages. I suppose The Economist and Dagens Nyheter are the ones I trust the most.
(5) Do you read blogs? How often, in relation to traditional media consumption?
Rarely. I read alot of newspaper articles for every blog entry I read.
(6) What types of blogs interest you?
Political commentary, ones about culture/literature.
(7) Respond to this statement:
“The journalist of the twenty-first century will need to become a much more skilful storyteller, one who can not only weave together the facts of an event or process but connect those facts to a much wider set of contextualizing events and circumstances.” (Pavlik, J. V., Journalism and New Media, p. 218)
Nice rhetorics.
(8) Do you think first-hand accounts are closer to the truth than a carefully crafted news story?
Sometimes, sometimes not.
(9) Have you ever contacted a TV station or paper about their news reporting (critique, correction, etc)? Why? What was the response? Is it worthwhile?
No, I've never.
(10) Have you ever contacted an online publication? What was the response there?
No, not that either.
(11) Can you think of an online news site that uses links effectively?
Yes.
(12) Have you ever sent a news story to your friends by email? What type of story was it? Why that story?
No, and I don't figure I'll ever will either.
(I submit this question is stupid; I've sent dozens and dozens news stories to my friends via instant messenging. The medium isn't the message.)
(13) Do you discuss news more in your online community or in your real-life community?
Both.
(14) Are you a news junkie or do you feel information overload?
Neither, I suppose.
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Sorry I won't go by questions
I'm a heavy computer user, so I use it to get information too. My only limitation is my poor bandwidth, so I still resort to TV for animation heavy content. I mostly get informed about current events, world politics, rarely sports.
I rarely read blogs. Most of them are by teenage girls with ordinary lives so I don't bother, but if previous posters can point me to the explicit ones with sexual fantasies and pictures, I could be interested.
I don't actively read online news sites, it's a waste of my time.
LDiCesare said it well: gossip. Let other people filter the interesting stuff and then I can dig deeper if I am interested. In offline world it's the obvious "did you hear about..." and in online world it works on forums such as this. For example, for local (Croatian) politics, I use Usenet a lot. It has a rather good noise to signal ratio compared to other local media.
Your example statement about journalism is crap
And I do feel an information overload. I can't help it, I am interested about great many things.
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Jul 2000
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(1) Which news media would you define to be most important to you (newspaper, tv, internet, etc.)? Why?
Internet, because of the variety and the specialization. I get most local and major world headlines from newspapers(no internet at the dorms), but any in-depth gathering of news is done on the internet.
(3) What type of news do you mainly read on the internet? (Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Humour, Tech, etc.)
Politics, Tech, World Events, Bussiness.
(4) Where do you think news is most credible (online, newspapers, TV…), and on what outlets (blogs, forums, NY Times, National Enquirer, CNN…)?
Newspapers and their online extensions.
(5) Do you read blogs? How often, in relation to traditional media consumption?
Yes. Pretty often.
(6) What types of blogs interest you?
Mainly the news-gathering ones. That is, blogs dedicated to a specific issue that post stories and related events from around the world. Saves me from doing the impossible and monitoring hundreds of newspapers.
(7) Respond to this statement:
“The journalist of the twenty-first century will need to become a much more skilful storyteller, one who can not only weave together the facts of an event or process but connect those facts to a much wider set of contextualizing events and circumstances.” (Pavlik, J. V., Journalism and New Media, p. 218)
That was always true.
(8) Do you think first-hand accounts are closer to the truth than a carefully crafted news story?
Yes, but they are usually of a very limited scope. For example, in the recent eathquake i'm much more interested in the big picture, economic and diplomatic implications, etc, than individual stories of survival.
(9) Have you ever contacted a TV station or paper about their news reporting (critique, correction, etc)? Why? What was the response? Is it worthwhile?
No. Not worth the effort.
(10) Have you ever contacted an online publication? What was the response there?
Yes, usually when ignorant reporters translate Reuters/AP stories and make gross mistakes. That tends to happen mostly with space&technology stories. In that case, I use the "reply to story" tool to post a quick correction. Most of the time the story is actually changed.
And yes, it is worthwhile, especially on issues which most of the public is ignorant about, and when these mistaken reports are the people's only window to the issue.
(11) Can you think of an online news site that uses links effectively?
One that doesnt use them at all. It annoys me to have links in the middle of the story. If I want more information, I'll google it.
Although adding links at the bottom of the report can be useful.
(12) Have you ever sent a news story to your friends by email? What type of story was it? Why that story?
Usually short factual stories on a common interst subject that are buried deep inside the usual garbage and tend to go missed.
Edit: I do that very rarely.
(13) Do you discuss news more in your online community or in your real-life community?
Online by far. My real life friends are ... limited as far as these stuff are concerned.
(14) Are you a news junkie or do you feel information overload?
I am a news junkies and I dont feel an information overload. I actually want more of it.
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Jan 2000
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Originally posted by thamis
Here are the questions:
(1) Which news media would you define to be most important to you (newspaper, tv, internet, etc.)? Why? |
The Internets are most important, though the most important part of the Internets for me news-wise are the online versions of various newspapers. A picture is definitely not worth a thousand words. TV news imparts a thimbleful of information during a broadcast, while the same amount of time spent reading imparts probably 10 times as much information. The internet allows me to read a number of newspapers from all over the world for free. So I read newspapers online.
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Originally posted by thamis
(3) What type of news do you mainly read on the internet? (Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Humour, Tech, etc.) |
News, with a little bit of politics, sports, tech and movie reviews.
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Originally posted by thamis
(4) Where do you think news is most credible (online, newspapers, TV…), and on what outlets (blogs, forums, NY Times, National Enquirer, CNN…)? |
I think blogs by people I know are the most credible, sorting from the most credible people I know to the least. Then comes media from the most credible media to the least.
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Originally posted by thamis
(5) Do you read blogs? How often, in relation to traditional media consumption? |
I don't read them that much, largely because they aren't very well organized and I have no immediate frame of reference for the source. I do read a few blogs that my friends write, but they only update once a week with a usually short article. Compared to my at least two hours a day of reading newspapers it doesn't amount to much though.
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Originally posted by thamis
(6) What types of blogs interest you? |
Not many, though I am interested in what my friends are thinking and doing.
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Originally posted by thamis
(7) Respond to this statement:
“The journalist of the twenty-first century will need to become a much more skilful storyteller, one who can not only weave together the facts of an event or process but connect those facts to a much wider set of contextualizing events and circumstances.” (Pavlik, J. V., Journalism and New Media, p. 218) |
What a pretentious w@nker! Does that guy teach your course or (worse yet) is your teacher just impressed with him? This is the sort of writing that made college so unbearable.
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(8) Do you think first-hand accounts are closer to the truth than a carefully crafted news story? |
Anyone who has witnessed an event and then seen the news coverage of it knows just how poorly the average event is covered after the fact.
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Originally posted by thamis
(9) Have you ever contacted a TV station or paper about their news reporting (critique, correction, etc)? Why? What was the response? Is it worthwhile? |
Yes, they never responded (I talked to a recording or emailed them). They were sensationalizing and oversimplifying a psychological phenomena for their own gain with possibly very negative consequences for the general public. (Worth it?) Not to my knowledge.
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(10) Have you ever contacted an online publication? What was the response there? |
No.
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(11) Can you think of an online news site that uses links effectively? |
They all do internally, but they are all too greedy to direct you offsite otherwise. This is where blogs shine, they are great at organizing the information put out by mainstream sources as well as other blogs.
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Originally posted by thamis
(12) Have you ever sent a news story to your friends by email? What type of story was it? Why that story? |
No, what would be the point? I have very occasionally sent links to wierd stories that my friends might find interesting and might otherwise miss. This is a rare occurence though.
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(13) Do you discuss news more in your online community or in your real-life community? |
Online. Discussing things online cuts down a lot on the kung fu fighting one would otherwise engage in being a libertarian / conservative in the most liberal town in the state.
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(14) Are you a news junkie or do you feel information overload?
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Yes, absolutely.
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of Schmooism
Feb 2001
time: 00:16
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(1) Which news media would you define to be most important to you (newspaper, tv, internet, etc.)? Why?
Internet.
(3) What type of news do you mainly read on the internet? (Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Humour, Tech, etc.)
Humour, the Onion.
(4) Where do you think news is most credible (online, newspapers, TV…), and on what outlets (blogs, forums, NY Times, National Enquirer, CNN…)?
Washington Post, NYT, CNN, BBC.
(5) Do you read blogs? How often, in relation to traditional media consumption?
No.
(7) Respond to this statement:
“The journalist of the twenty-first century will need to become a much more skilful storyteller, one who can not only weave together the facts of an event or process but connect those facts to a much wider set of contextualizing events and circumstances.” (Pavlik, J. V., Journalism and New Media, p. 218)
BS. The purpose of a reporter is to give me facts, not tell me a story.
(8) Do you think first-hand accounts are closer to the truth than a carefully crafted news story?
It really depends. First-hand accounts can be incredibly biased, because of issues with human memory, but a carefully crafted news story sounds like a euphamism for "we made stuff up to support our case".
(9) Have you ever contacted a TV station or paper about their news reporting (critique, correction, etc)? Why? What was the response? Is it worthwhile?
No.
(10) Have you ever contacted an online publication? What was the response there?
No.
(11) Can you think of an online news site that uses links effectively?
Not really.
(12) Have you ever sent a news story to your friends by email? What type of story was it? Why that story?
Not by email, no. I've shown articles to other people.
(13) Do you discuss news more in your online community or in your real-life community?
Online.
(14) Are you a news junkie or do you feel information overload?
Somewhere in between the two.
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Las Vegas, Nevada
Feb 2000
time: 21:16
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(1) Which news media would you define to be most important to you (newspaper, tv, internet, etc.)? Why?
internet. mostly for convenience sake as I'm always on the internet. but I still enjoy watching the local news on television and the NBC nightly news. and occasionally cnn news during major events.
(2) If your answer to (1) was not internet, define the internet’s position in news gathering for you.
NA
(3) What type of news do you mainly read on the internet? (Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Humour, Tech, etc.)
A combination of all of those. News is news, right? I watch for current events. I stay away from a lot of politics except those that pertain to war and global domination (2 of my favourite interests ). But it is interesting to watch the power struggle in the world today. Relations between the U.S. and the rest of the world (specifically the U.N. and E.U.) interest me. But I also try to keep up on entertainment news (usually on cnn.com website) and tech news (again on cnn.com). For sports- I usually get that from television, but occasionally I'll read an article on the cnn.com website (which usually directs me to si.com). I also go to nfl.com and espn.com.
(4) Where do you think news is most credible (online, newspapers, TV…), and on what outlets (blogs, forums, NY Times, National Enquirer, CNN…)?
online news. CNN seems to be the most credible.
(5) Do you read blogs? How often, in relation to traditional media consumption?
I still don't really know what a blog was. I thought it was a journal.
(6) What types of blogs interest you?
NA
(7) Respond to this statement:
“The journalist of the twenty-first century will need to become a much more skilful storyteller, one who can not only weave together the facts of an event or process but connect those facts to a much wider set of contextualizing events and circumstances.” (Pavlik, J. V., Journalism and New Media, p. 218)
I'm against that statement. Far too often in news today, journalists are expected to "dress up" the news to make it more interesting. Far too often that ends up biased. I want the news, and the news only.
(8) Do you think first-hand accounts are closer to the truth than a carefully crafted news story?
yes- to first hand accounts
(9) Have you ever contacted a TV station or paper about their news reporting (critique, correction, etc)? Why? What was the response? Is it worthwhile?
no
(10) Have you ever contacted an online publication? What was the response there?
no
(11) Can you think of an online news site that uses links effectively?
drugereport.com
(12) Have you ever sent a news story to your friends by email?
once I sent a story to my aunt.
What type of story was it? Why that story?
it was a story dealing with death valley, as we had recently travelled there together
(13) Do you discuss news more in your online community or in your real-life community?
real life?  Online of course- specifically apolyton.net
(14) Are you a news junkie or do you feel information overload?
somewhere in between
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Los Angeles
Apr 2000
time: 02:16
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(1) Which news media would you define to be most important to you (newspaper, tv, internet, etc.)? Why?
I would say it is a tie between the internet and TV, but moreso the internet.
(2) If your answer to (1) was not internet, define the internet’s position in news gathering for you.
N/A
(3) What type of news do you mainly read on the internet? (Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Humour, Tech, etc.)
I read mainly politics, tech, science and sports. Entertainment is the least I pay attention to
(4) Where do you think news is most credible (online, newspapers, TV…), and on what outlets (blogs, forums, NY Times, National Enquirer, CNN…)?
Certainly not on TV. I would say online, but you have to be very careful. There is a lot of left wing propaganda that flies through different blogs. On a different note, I think Drudgereport has an accurate way of reporting different stories, but they don't report everything.
(5) Do you read blogs? How often, in relation to traditional media consumption?
Yes I read blogs. They can give an important perspective on the issues, as many I read are from Iraqis supporting the liberation of their country from the evils of Saddam Hussein. They blow away the anti-war view back home and provide support for me to continue my support of the war. I read them way more often then traditional media.
(6) What types of blogs interest you?
As I said, blogs operated by individuals, specifically at this point Iraqs. Due to the recent tsunami disaster, there are a lot of first hand accounts from India on blogs
(7) Respond to this statement:
“The journalist of the twenty-first century will need to become a much more skilful storyteller, one who can not only weave together the facts of an event or process but connect those facts to a much wider set of contextualizing events and circumstances.” (Pavlik, J. V., Journalism and New Media, p. 218)
Many journalists unfortunately never reach those standards, ever.
(8) Do you think first-hand accounts are closer to the truth than a carefully crafted news story?
I do think first hand accounts are closer to the truth.. though they are biased often.. even if a news story is well crafted, arm chair liberals find a way to squeeze in bias.
(9) Have you ever contacted a TV station or paper about their news reporting (critique, correction, etc)? Why? What was the response? Is it worthwhile?
Once. I sent a response to an article in San Fernando Daily News. It was printed, but no response from the newspaper.. they just list opinions
(10) Have you ever contacted an online publication? What was the response there?
No
(11) Can you think of an online news site that uses links effectively?
DRUDGEREPORT
(12) Have you ever sent a news story to your friends by email? What type of story was it? Why that story?
I have sent news stories to friends, family and others. The stories are typically about advancement in computers, politics and other issues.
(13) Do you discuss news more in your online community or in your real-life community?
Certainly real life community, amongst friends...
(14) Are you a news junkie or do you feel information overload?
I feel I don't have enough.
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Los Angeles, CA, USA
Feb 1999
time: 21:16
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quote:
Originally posted by thamis
(1) Which news media would you define to be most important to you (newspaper, tv, internet, etc.)? Why?
(2) If your answer to (1) was not internet, define the internet’s position in news gathering for you.
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TV is the most important [most used] 'cause I can turn it on and passively watch.
Newpapers if I want in-depth info on particular subjects of the day.
Internet is the best balanced and has hard-to-find info. For example, I visited the nation of Mauritius a few years ago & with the recent tsumami, I wondered how it was effected. I found the info. on Al Jezeera. 
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(3) What type of news do you mainly read on the internet? (Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Humour, Tech, etc.) |
Politics
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They all spin the news, so one needs to look to a variety of sources.
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Not as much as I should. Still rely too much on traditional media.
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(7) Respond to this statement:
“The journalist of the twenty-first century will need to become a much more skilful storyteller, one who can not only weave together the facts of an event or process but connect those facts to a much wider set of contextualizing events and circumstances.” (Pavlik, J. V., Journalism and New Media, p. 218)
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I don't think the first part of the quote and the second part of the quote are logically connected.
The first part is about story telling, i.e. spin.
The second part is about putting the new story is a larger context to show its importance...that's part of being a good news reporter.
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(8) Do you think first-hand accounts are closer to the truth than a carefully crafted news story?
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No, more interesting but less truthful. The nature of the first-hand account causes it to lack perspective.
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No. I have had a few letters to the editor published re the story giving rise to the news, but not the article itself.
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No.
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(11) Can you think of an online news site that uses links effectively?
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The Drudge Report.
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(12) Have you ever sent a news story to your friends by email?
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Not that I can remember.
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I do both a lot. I have no idea where I do more.
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News junkie.
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thamis
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United Europe
Jan 2002
time: 05:16
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Thanks for all the responses. It'd be great if more people could post.
Some other questions that come to mind while reading your responses:
(15) Internet news is less packaged. You can find more, but you have to actively look for it. Is that an advantage or a disadvantage?
(16) Describe the process you go through to find accurate news. First see it on TV, then look it up on the net? Or different?
(17) Blogs are sometimes seen to be like an Op-ed article. Do you prefer to read factual news or op-ed news? How do you relate to these types of articles?
Thanks!
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CPA - Evil Clone brigade
Nov 2001
time: 06:16
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Originally posted by thamis
(1) Which news media would you define to be most important to you (newspaper, tv, internet, etc.)? Why? |
Formal media (TV sources or newspapers) on the Internet. Because I think I know the flaws of these media, whereas I have no idea to what extent a particular blog can be trusted.
I am also interested in the ease of use: with the Internet, I have much better access to formal news sources around the world, instead of being stuck with my national media.
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(2) If your answer to (1) was not internet, define the internet’s position in news gathering for you. |
Internet is useful to reach formal news around the world. Despite my small use of blogs, I acknowledge they can give interesting, if not always trustworthy, opinions.
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(3) What type of news do you mainly read on the internet? (Politics, Entertainment, Sports, Humour, Tech, etc.) |
Politics, almost exclusively.
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(4) Where do you think news is most credible (online, newspapers, TV…), and on what outlets (blogs, forums, NY Times, National Enquirer, CNN…)? |
Pure news are best in news agencies (AFP, AP, Reuters). For a higher perspective, I prefer "neutral" news sources like the BBC or Le Monde. For specific news regarding social struggles in France (one of my interests), I read the opinionated newspaper L'Humanité.
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(5) Do you read blogs? How often, in relation to traditional media consumption? |
Almost never, except those that are posted on the forums by other members. I sometimes check the personal blogs of my online friends.
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(6) What types of blogs interest you? |
My interest is quite limited but: political blogs, personal blogs of people I know.
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(7) Respond to this statement:
“The journalist of the twenty-first century will need to become a much more skilful storyteller, one who can not only weave together the facts of an event or process but connect those facts to a much wider set of contextualizing events and circumstances.” (Pavlik, J. V., Journalism and New Media, p. 218) |
I disagree. If anything, information becomes more and more entertainment oriented, with shorter analyses, which are thus doomed to be more and more simplistic. The long analyses will progressively be out of the commercial job of journalism, and will enter the blogger's realm. Some bloggers will have journalistic ethics, while most will openly push for their agenda.
In short, if anything, analysis and journalism will become increasingly un-bundled.
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(8) Do you think first-hand accounts are closer to the truth than a carefully crafted news story? |
Ambivalent.
They can give some information that will then be lost by later analyses (dismissed as "unimportant" or "emotional"), and thus are closer to the truth in that regard. On the other hand, first hand accounts do focus on matters that may prove relatively unimportant in retrospect, while ignoring less spectacular matters that are of higher importance, thus being further from the truth.
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(9) Have you ever contacted a TV station or paper about their news reporting (critique, correction, etc)? Why? What was the response? Is it worthwhile? |
Never. If I'm dissatisfied with a News source, I simply stop checking it. I am not emotionally attached to the news sources I read, to the point that I wish to "change them from within". Except maybe for one.
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(10) Have you ever contacted an online publication? What was the response there? |
Never.
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(11) Can you think of an online news site that uses links effectively? |
I don't know. I never check links provided by news sources.
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(12) Have you ever sent a news story to your friends by email? What type of story was it? Why that story? |
Yes. I sometimes sent political news to my friends, and I often provide political news on my forum. It fuels the debates I can have with my friends / forum members.
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(13) Do you discuss news more in your online community or in your real-life community? |
In my online community.
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(14) Are you a news junkie or do you feel information overload? |
Neither. I am quite fine with the amount of information I get.
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(15) Internet news is less packaged. You can find more, but you have to actively look for it. Is that an advantage or a disadvantage? |
It is a disadvantage, for interesting opinions could be overlooked by people like me, for lack of packaging.
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(16) Describe the process you go through to find accurate news. First see it on TV, then look it up on the net? Or different? |
I generally see the news on TV or on the newspaper first. If my interest in the matter is personal, I do a search on various different news outlets (different nationalities, different opinions), to get the bigger picture. If I am already hooked by what little I watched/read, I go online only to find an English-speaking, copypastable source to share with my online community.
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(17) Blogs are sometimes seen to be like an Op-ed article. Do you prefer to read factual news or op-ed news? |
Op-eds are packaged with the news outlets I read, which is the only reason I read them. I don't think op-eds are inherently worth more than blogs (except that I suppose the info they use to be true, or at least to be considered as truth by the editorialist). They use the selected info to further their agenda, which is a good thing when you know the editorialist's biases.
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