cbc's thoughts on content

I liked a lot of what was said in this article. I completely agree that the content part of the model should come after the real life is reported exactly how it happened, regardless of the medium. However, every medium is giving it's biggest effort to be the most entertaining way of delivering news, this way people will want to tune into them and get all their information from them. I think that every medium is too focused on being number one in their field that it's become more important than the actual message. I think each medium mentioned (t.v., radio, and internet) has it's positives and negatives. With T.V. you see with your own eyes what's happening and can interpret it your own way; however the scene that is chosen for you to view can easily be manipulated and leave out a lot. WIth radio, you have the option of turning to a certain channel and finding someone with your similar viewpoints to explain a certain event; however they're focused on getting more people listening to them so they could leave out a lot of information and overrun it with entertainment. The internet is nice because you can see an article, and then people's posts of their views on it and you get a much more wide variety of different viewpoints on the same subject; however with so many different opinions and views on one thing, how do you know which one to trust and which is the most credible? I thought it was interesting that written word (newspapers, magazines, etc) wasn't even mentioned, when at one point this was the only way to get news. Overall, i would agree with the idea that the medium is the message.