News Wars: Use It, Not Abuse It

In the PBS Frontline special "News Wars: What's Happening to the News" it was said that one of the greatest tragedies is that we have begun to judge the news like we judge TV... By giving people what they want. One of the original CBS correspondents Edward R. Murrow in regards to television said we must learn to "Use it, not abuse it." News reporting has change immensely over the past few years and is not going to stop anytime soon. The way we get out news, the way we report our news, it's always changing with the technology that is changing with it. Eric Schmit, CEO of Google, said the new reporters of today are not going to follow traditional reporting. News used to be reported to the observing public audience; now news is reported to an interactive audience that want to be part of the news, not just an observer of the news. We blog news and make it available for anyone to become a reported of the news. And what about the newspapers? In the same documentary video they posed the argument that 85% of news comes from the original source of newspapers, all other news is just recycled. To justify the argument they made the point that it in the print journalist that are knocking on doors and digging up the information. But news will never die, therer may be new ways in which we want the news, how it is presented, and what medium it is provided by, but the news will always be needed. Have we gone against Edward R. Murrow's advice? Are we using the televison, or are we abusing it?