newspapers and CBC

I think a lot of what we already have learned in this class makes the interview with Anderson such an obvious view. Newspapers of course are having a hard time competing with all the news access people can get from online. It isnt a negative thing if newspapers will stop existing at some point because people arent less interested in getting the news. Really people are interested in getting the news faster, and the internet allows this. People are able to access news stories that interest them and only those which interest them at a much faster rate and much easier AND for free. Using the internet as a source for information is just an all around win situation. Newspapers can't compete with the ability to search and therefore strictly read about one topic.

CBC claims that the medium is the message and that each of the media, tv, radio and internet have unique ways of providing information to their audience. CBC worries that the internet is going to provide people with poor content and that it will inform no one. I dont know how they think this is possible. The articles arent poorly displayed via the internet they are displayed with a much easier way of accessing them, and deliver just as much information as media that was previously preferred before the internet.