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“Like other American workers, journalists these days are crunched, working harder with less support and holding tight to their jobs. Eight to sixteen times a day, Chuck Todd, of NBC, hustles from his cubicle in the White House basement to a patch of grass nicknamed Pebble Beach, where he conducts standup interviews for NBC and MSNBC. His day begins at dawn, when he scans the press and writes the opening page of NBC’s blog ‘First Read,’ then throws on a jacket to appear on the ‘today’ show or on ‘Morning Joe,’ on MSNBC. Before the day ends, he has also written eight to ten tweets or facebook postings and three to five blog entries.”
I feel like this portion is relevant to the paper because it talks about how a journalist does their work, I know not every person works like this but it’s not a focused effort when they do. Have you ever tried to write a paper while juggling 3 other things? In personal experiences I get distracted and will lose my train of thought then my paper becomes weaker. If journalists are working on evidence for multiple papers a day, then writing them at separate times, how often do they get side tracked? Obama says “The transformation of media has not only undermined the imperial institutions of mainstream media; it has undermined the imperial presidency” and this connects because we learn how journalism has changed in this paragraph. They used to focus on one topic, instead of the 50+ you see in our newspapers today. I think someone who is old enough to remember the old newspaper styles and was subjected to the real life side of the paper should go in and compare how accurate the journalists were compared to today.
This portion of the article goes to say that journalists go above and beyond to get their story. They do a multiple of things daily to keep up with their stories so they don't miss a thing. They don't take account to the fact that doing so many things daily could potientually make their stories into something else because they aren't focusing on one topic but many at a time. Older articles focus on one topic instead of a multiple of them and were probably better stories and easier to understand. Combining more than one together as they do today, compared to one topic, one story back then, I think that they were more accurate and now they are questionable. The stories of today are all over the place.
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