and disclosing information. He makes a claim saying that a reporter is dying profession
because of more convenient media outlets, such as blogs; straight from the source. I would have to accept Boriss’ description of the reporter as the middleman because of the way the reporter receives and distributes information. As a reporter your goal is too obtain details and the information of a certain story, and produce an article directly related to the story so consumers can read and retain the information and therefore have knowledge of the story. Then the story can be passed through word of mouth and the story gets around. The reporter is obviously the middleman because they are the median between the real story and the consumer. Boriss is saying that reporters are becoming obtuse to the journalism industry because of new media places such as blogs and podcasts. For example I wrote a blog for the Boston Bruins, I didn’t need to contact the Bruins for information but took already made news and made inferences and opinions on the situations at hand and people that read them became knowledgeable of the situation. People do not need to go to the paper for the story but just people whom blog about subjects they are looking for. Bloggers do not need to specify the source because of the pubic information that is displayed on the Internet. Boriss says this is the reason why the middleman, or the reporter, will become a transparent profession in the future as it was in the past before the printing press. As a blogger and someone who reads blogs to obtain information, I agree with Boriss in his argument of the middleman. They just recycle news that can be found elsewhere, so who needs them?
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