Before the internet age, big stories were a big deal. Reporters would work all the angles to cover the story and before you knew it, you knew details that you never would have even associated with that particular story. With the internet news items have to be cast or published immediately with little research or insite added if a news system wants to remain competative. A reporter can't even spend valuable minutes thinking up new angles. And now with the world of bloggers taking off, you have people blogging eye witness accounts instead of being interviewed.
We know more about what's happening in the world, but has the quality of the news suffered? The Daily Show is a favorite of mine because they are always spinning the news in amusing ways such as pulling clips of politians completely contradicting themselves. But why don't we see this type of detail in the 'real' news?
Where will the news be twenty years from now? Who will make the call as to what is important enough to be called news. Will there ever come a time where the journalists go back to asking hard hitting questions of our polititians? Will anything short of a disaster hold the news for more than a day so we can find out about the news 'behind' the news?
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