The Positive and the Adverse of Receiving Information (publishing) Online

March 31st, 2010 admin Posted in news |

By editor notthetimes

A news article written by Doug Gross on March first 2010 and published by CNN, reported that as many as 75% of the inhabitants in the United States obtain their news and information from on-line resources as opposed to television or newspapers. Why would so many turn to this new source for news and information?

1. Regardless of your political persuasion you are undoubtedly sensitive that what passes for news from the main news outlets is usually rubbish. Too often they dole out up super-sized helpings of useless but dramatic stories, while neglecting to put out news that is critically important to you, your family and acquaintances. About a year ago all key news outlet was publishing stories about two collage aged adults video tapeing bad events at ACORN offices. It was a scandalous story that ran for days. Did you hear the later story when the FBI studied the tapes and determined that the young man’s voice was dubbed in later so the ACORN person was not answering the question you thought you heard? While few taxpayers would understand it if our tax dollars actually were being used to sustain what the video pretended to show, there is a bigger issue here. Why wasn’t the main stream media, both television news and newspapers trying to figure out where 700 BILLION dollars vanished to?

By contrast, constructive information is actually what the internet is for. While it occasionally calls for some time, browsing for news regularly results in finding those essential news stories.

2. We recognized the reality in the old proverb “Whoever pays the piper, gets to call the tune.” For profit news outlets have an financial interest in not offending firms or industries who purchase advertising from them. Too often and often too late the public is advised of a meaningful news event that wasn’t published until the problem was settled. Months later we are told of the information withheld by the major publishers to protect their advertisers.

The world has lots of persons who are actively involved in important events going on in and around their lives and for any one of a long list of reasons, they often want to get information to the community. To those citizens the internet is the great medium to inform citizens. There are no corporate obligations to inhibit the information from being circulated rather just people determined to get the information to other people who might profit from it.

3. But there is a menace of news from the net as well. Too often well intended to malicious citizens make up hysterical threats that plainly don’t exist. One current instance of this was the “boxcar and shackles” story. The account was that boxcars were being developed and fitted with shackles to haul people off to concentration camps placed across the US. After researching this it was obvious that the freight cars in question have been in use for about 20 years for moving vehicles. The shackles? They are the apparatus used to hold the autos in place during transport.

Unfortunately this account got some “traction” and scared people who believed it. So the challenge of using the internet for gathering up news is little different from handling a firearm. Use it cautiously, know without question the source, study and examine again. Information that seems extreme should be researched until all doubt about the truthfulness is confirmed.

Internet news is usually exceptional in its’ scope and scope. Using it you will discover information that impacts your daily existence and outlook. But do be alert when you read, listen to or see information that is extreme. It might be right, but it is your responsibility to study the information. Or, simply collect your news from reliable sources and save the time.

Not The Times is a new source of important but not hysterical news on a variety of topics you can use every day. Pete Orthmann, Editor

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