A Year In News Reaction

The article spends a good portion of time talking about the major stories that were covered by traditional news outlets, and how there is less variety than before. In class on Tuesday we talked about how newspapers are going to become a niche publication that will only be available to the wealthy in the coming years. While this might not happen economically with TV or radio, I still think that all media outlets are becoming niche in one way or another. People who want to read about foreign relations with certain countries can go to different publications to read in-depth coverage. The nightly news can’t cover everything that Americas wants to hear, but they know what most of their viewers want to see. Nightly news is a niche just like anything else. Even though you might not be able to classify it as a political news outlet or a business outlet, they cover the same sort of stories night in and night out. People know what they are going to get when they watch the nightly news, and that is why people continue to watch it. All media is becoming more niche because they have to be in order to stay alive. To say that certain aspects of journalism like newspapers and blogs are not becoming niche is just incorrect, because all outlets cater to a certain group of people in a way that no other outlet does.