From the Gawker network, the ever updated source on information on new media has raised the alarm on the adoption of new media by traditional print publishers. This has become the norm of today’s economically challenged firms, go to the net but many questions have been raised about such a move since the net was born and began to spread its global reach. This would not only be wise, but would allow these traditional print media to maintain their diverse talent pool while they try to find a way of salvaging their other businesses in print. They however sight the should we call lack of sight on the importance of reliability wherein many a story have had to be told, re-told and then edited just because they are getting the news out so fast, that traditional editing and even spelling checking isn’t possible.
The infusion of traditional print in electronic form has plagued the realm of new media making it more muddled than ever before. i mean, new media is already on the rocks with the advent of blogging and twittering which has rattled the realm so much it needs a reality check to separate the factual from fiction. Though new media may be a jumbled mess of everybody who wants to say anything about anybody, it is part of the evolution of the net which was seen as the next big leap for the aging technology that started out as a cold war defense network. Much of the net has information that can be called anything other than factual but that is what the social internet is all about. Getting the masses to control what is in and what is out, where the truth outlives the tons of lies that gets indexed by spiders just as well if anybody foolish enough just happens to want it.
Traditional print however electronic it will be will always be traditional for they rely on good old responsible journalism, the only problem they face is that are they ready for the influx of criticism that we have all gotten used to on the net. They used to be the authority on information with the headlines and printed news deemed as truth, with the internet, they get the information out faster but any inconsistencies are quickly quelled and made apparent. Imagine a newspaper that has already been printed with a million copies and getting each one, changing a misspelling or headline. the speed the internet offers is the bane for traditional print media entering the fray, they’re simply not used to it. They’d better do more work on their publishing skills if they are to continue their ventures into the realm of virtual space, for their sake and ours.