The Press Sphere

When I was reading Jarvis' article, I found myself thinking about the evolution of the way we obtain our news. Jarvis mentioned how now our news comes from multiple sources, and not from the direct source of the press like in his "how it was" diagram. I began questioning his diagram, as it didn't seem likely that it was true. Sure, a big portion of news came from the press, but did people not stand by the water cooler and gossip back then? Did no one exchange facts that they heard with each other? did none of the elements he losted for this new ecology apply to the days of his reference? I'm not trashing on Jarvis, but it seems unlikely that the news was as unfiltered as he claims it was. I wasn't able to get a firm grasp on what Jarvis' actual opinion was, as I feel like he made some points against this new "press sphere" and some points towards it. But here's my take: why does this new press-sphere have to be bad? these different outlets that allow us to acces different view points on the news enable us more perspectives towards the news, and allow us to form our own opinions about it. And if your worried about the actual news being skewed, I don't think you have to be. Even through bias the facts seem so find it's way through every story, and as Jarvis mentioned, there's always the actual source of the news that we can rely on thanks to technology. With my own experience, almost all my news still comes through the press. I go online and look at articles on CNN and the NY Times. But I do hear plenty of gossip through Facebook and other new venues. But I don't think it's a problem.