There are three schools of thought when it comes to online journalism. The first would be, "Hell yeah, I'd pay for that sort of sh*t." The second would be, "F*** no, this sh*t ain't worth it!" And lastly, the neutral party who would just sit there and wait for news to come to them.
News come to people easily as humans are social beings, they feel the need to communicate and some of them do start out a conversation based on the news that he/she has heard/read.
There are many ideals in which a person would pay for online content. Partly because of the ease of accessibility and the convenience of not recycling paper. Using online content would probably save the Earth as what some of us have been trying to do. But online content isn't just about newspapers and the internet, it's about professional journalism that counts.
Journalism is a field, in which many argue, that does require hard work. Journalists slog everyday just so that they would be the first to deliver the news to the masses in which they serve. Citizen Journalism may well be underway but there is no way that they can beat the professionals at it. Perhaps the language tool may come better to those outside the journalism field but journalism comes with experience and training. We are trained to slice our words into instant nuggets of knowledge and we are trained to interview the people who are involved in a news story. We are trained to sniff out a news story when we see one and we are trained to be there before other news anchors do. We are trained to deliver to the masses and we are trained to be as quick and efficient as we can. There is no beating of professional journalism when it comes to citizen journalism.
The act of buying online content would be due to the fact that there is a trait of credibility to the respective websites that churn out news stories. Credibility is being tested in a variety of ways that people gather their news. News can be distorted with a slight inclination as no one can be entirely objective. However, quality journalism does not stand for subjectivity. Hard cold news is what the audience wants, and thus the audience would get what they want.
Technological advancements are moving into an era when almost everything could be on the internet. It could be probable that newspapers might, one day, all go digital. This could be seen in an article supplied by AFP to The Age Newspaper Digital Edition.
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has mentioned that "I don't want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers,"
"One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press."
Perhaps, since everyone has a choice on the internet, all newspapers supplied would be digital and newspaper agencies that do run the news website has got to be extremely quick on reaching a news story first lest it gets stolen by the other newspaper agencies.
Rupert Murdoch has also stated that he plans to move to build a successful online model which would be dependent on "being prepared to take the risk" to charge for online content, and "hopefully by the quality of content in sports and finance, capture that market". (Tabakoff, The Australian, 2009). Link to the article could be found here.
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