Me and the Press Sphere

Through Jarvis' model, I can see how the press sphere is affecting the way I get the news every day. News doesn't come straight through the source, it's transformed through the eyes of writers, editors, spectators, and commenters. Even on the NY Times web page, you can see how the press sphere is entering our lives. Pictures for stories show me courageous feats and tragic lives, already introducing a bias to the stories through tugging at the strings of my emotions. Then in the actual article there are quotes from various sources, offering new insight into the news. There is no doubt that there are tons of sources that go into the publishing of news that we now see, but like I mentioned in my last post, I don't see how this is a bad thing. New insight offers new opinions, and through these new opinions you can form your own, which make for interesting insights to all stories and they make for good debate. And where the NY Times might be considered direct from the press, our blogs may seem like the other outlets of news that we receive. They're more opinionated, and more raw than the manufactured goods of the press. Jarvis' model mentioned the outside sources of witnesses, peers, and links. I have seen all of these sources spawned from my peers blog posts. It's a great example for Jarvis' model, showing the strengthening relationship that the press has with the public and outside sources.