I want to take it back a week or so and talk about chapter 4 in The News About The News.

I want to talk about this chapter because it blew my mind when I read it. Growing up in an era where technology has grown and now become such a vital part of our lives and daily function, I just assumed that television news was the know-all portal of everything going on in the world.

Now don’t get me wrong, I always believe that despite the dying newspaper industry, they, too, played a vital role in informing the public. But what I didn’t know was that TV news still gets all of their stories straight from newspapers.

Think about this…we pride ourselves on being in the “golden age of media”, relying on it so much for everyday things. And with the rise of TV newscast, we pride ourselves on getting the news from this innovative portal and no longer having to rely on the ink on paper any longer.

Yet, without these newspapers, TV news would be left with nothing, having to fend for themselves. With only a fraction of the reporters that newspapers have, TV would have to be completely restructured if newspapers were to be completely wiped out.