Whats more about media than when one media outlet uses another to spread an important issue.
If you do not know who Glenn Beck is, your are sure to either see his story on Facebook, YouTube and even Good Morning America. Beck created a video on his page, GlennBeck.com, about a recent outpatient procedure that turned into a 5 day stint at the hospital.
Beck posted this video and now it is on every video site from YouTube to Facebook. How better of a way to create a global voice than by multiple websites uploading this video to their sites, other people get to view it, word of mouth spreads the story and before you know it USA Today has articles on it.
That is how mass media begins to work for itself in todays day and age of technology and the surrounding problems of the internet taking away from other forms of media.
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I will have to check that out.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you have gotten to read the first chapter of the Missouri book yet but it kind of relates to what you are talking about. It discusses the way that you can no longer be proficient in just one media outlet you must be able to write articles for a paper and also probably the internet etc. The example they use talks about the different outlets journalists are using to connect with audiences and I think this is a great example of that.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really interesting topic, and whats funny is that I haven't heard of it at all. I can't wait to see what you're talking about.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree with Barbara as far as this perhaps the best example of multi media distibution outlets. It seems that the more avenues that journalist can conquer, the more popular their writing tends to be. Non-the-less I am intrigued to find out more on Glen Beck.
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