Dan Rather discusses the idea of "Rethinking" and how many news reporters and journalists aren't worried about their stories anymore. Many writers are forgetting to re-check and revise their works on things such as vertical reporting versus broad, horizontal reporting. This is one concept which caught my eye more than other things Rather gave his views on. The idea of digging deep into the concept of a story, is being lost because of the 'New World' of journalism.
It is very important to know that the old journalism ways are diminishing. Less and less reporters are focused on the truth of stories. Rather explains that "those who own and control the major news distribution" are in a crisis since American Journalism is in a period of transition. This transition is moving from newspaper print to new technology including the internet as a reporting tool. While it is putting some writers at risk, I believe that the wide variety of resources for news that I now have access to, at any time of the day on my personal computer has made me a more aware citizen. If this 'New World' of journalism hadn't been created, many of us would still rely on resources not as easily accessable including the television evening news and the daily newspaper. The internet updates its news every hour on the hour.
Dan Rather made it very clear that there is a crisis in the world of American Journalism. The old media world is collapsing and the new is coming in on the web. Rather admits there is good journalism on the web, which is an added value to the American people, but journalism is an independent field. Freedom of speech is definitely an issue discussed boldly by Rather. He wants to inform viewers that the way American journalism serves American people of historic proportions is not going to have a very positive outcome to readers.
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