Internet:a plus or a minus for descriptive/informative nononline journalism articles?

[zippo]

The internet, apart from all the benefits it has given us that we all know of, has also introduced the concept of converting anything into text. A health insurance company, a restaurant, a human rights organization, a food product, a car sales company, etc, now all have the possibility of taking on the format of words through online webpages, something thats becoming almost a requisite. It goes almost without saying, "so, whats the next step, a webpage, right?"; we can even safely say that if youre not on the internet, you might get scolded for being a bit behind the times.

Usually, the point of creating a webpage for your company, organization, product, political party, office, etc, is for informative or descriptive reasons. an introduction (if not, more) of whatever it is you do or sell. So, what does this leave those journalists that, with the same objective, go out and look for the information, be it through interviews or investigation then? Im really only referring to descriptive/informative articles because theyre the ones that are slowly getting harmed by this relatively new phenomenon. the job...is pretty much already done.

Im thinking this might lead into a greater practice of analytical journalism, maybe more articles of opinion, longer, maybe serial articles. It most probably is already provoking a change in the type of journalism that, in earlier times, was significant and neccesary, but now, is becoming pretty much useless.

Have any of your journalists felt, while you were preparing one of those informative type articles, a sense of meaninglessness? I definetly have.

[jabumbo]

what about people who write these informational articles for the internet?


i mean, sombodys gotta write the stuff you are reading on the net

[zippo]

the people who write up these webpages arent necessarily journalists. its not like the journalists that write physical articles made for magazine/newspapers now transfer their jobs to the online format. so thats why im saying its giving descriptive/informative articles less reasons to exist each month that passes by rather than giving the physical journalist more opportunities.

and the ones that are written up by actual journalists still affect the decrease of descriptive/informative non-online articles anyway, because what theyre producing is not a continuation of that type of article but a webpage on a company, organization or product. thats not journalism, its text. but whos gonna be harmed, journalism ofcourse, the press now has to share its use of text with the internet (that is, if were referring to mass media).

[Bob]

what's wrong with journalism on the internet? if you write an article for a physical journal, and then put it on the internet without changing a word, i don't think it's devalued any, is it?

[zippo]

what's wrong with journalism on the internet? if you write an article for a physical journal, and then put it on the internet without changing a word, i don't think it's devalued any, is it?

nonono, im talking about how, this present day custom of creating a webpage, be it for any of the examples i used in my first post, is harming descriptive/informative articles because, in other words and to make a clear example, why the hell would you need to write an article on information about insurance companys when all the information about them is already on the net? im only referring to those type of articles. those type of articles arent really all that necessary anymore.

[Bob]

nonono, im talking about how, this present day custom of creating a webpage, be it for any of the examples i used in my first post, is harming descriptive/informative articles because, in other words and to make a clear example, why the hell would you need to write an article on information about insurance companys when all the information about them is already on the net? im only referring to those type of articles. those type of articles arent really all that necessary anymore.

oh. i suppose you're right then, yeah. i mean, why go to the library and muck about in a database and find a journal article on something when you can just go here (http://www.wikipedia.org/)?

that's all user submitted content, it's a pretty amazing site, actually

[zippo]

oh. i suppose you're right then, yeah. i mean, why go to the library and muck about in a database and find a journal article on something when you can just go here (http://www.wikipedia.org/)?

that's all user submitted content, it's a pretty amazing site, actually

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i dont mean search sites like that, i mean webpages that organizations, companies, products, etc make to explain whatever it is they do or sell. all these webpages are informative. before the internet, you would only find out about these things or places through the media, but now, all the information about them is online, accessible to everyone, no need to inform the people of certain things anymore because these organizations, companies etc already do it themselves for themselves in this present day custom of creating a webpage for everything. im talking specifically about webpages with informative texts (making the physical descriptive/inf. articles not necessary anymore), not search engine webpages. thats why im saying, since that job is already "done", analytical type journalism could maybe now increase.