The point of a news source

News sources should be informative. They should report facts and happenings of things that are going around. Of course they can throw in opinion from different people, but it specifically has to be quoted as to who said what in a factual manner. Newspapers are meant to spread the word of what major events happen and situations of things in the larger world.

Print media, along with all other media, seems to fall under bias a lot of the time. They are in the market to be sold. It is for this reason that I believe newspapers are one form of news that, though different from online journalism, is in the same catagory as the rest. It will have bias, it will also have fact, but it will also have influence from outside forces that support it.

Because the newspaper industry is limping along, in a lot of ways, it is getting to be the most dependent on a lot of different things that provide profit, such as advertisements, sponsors, etc. I feel that the economy will improve sooner or later and help the newspapers get back into business. Also, those newspapers which fall under will give up their customers to others, helping the others stay afloat. In that way, it's sort of a Darwinist progression, but it seems none-the-less like it will be the case.