IT NEVER ENDS!

I think that Jarvis’ press sphere is trying to express that news is no long a simple A to B process like it used to be. News doesn’t go from the world to the press and then to us in an uninterrupted chain with no room for deviating braches and other sources. In our present day, due the technological rise that our society has experienced, the news is not received in this straight chain. Instead this chain has curves and twists and many other chains branching off of it connecting to other chains.

Jarvis’ press sphere is just this. “Witnesses can join in the process directly. Background might come via links to archives. Commentary from observers may add perspective. An accumulation of data may alert us to news or augment it. All of these elements add up to news” The press does not just feed us the news anymore, but instead there is so much commentary on the news that its becomes a sort of never ending cycle. People can comment on the story, links can be provided for background in formation, and more data can be used an evidence. All of this creates the sphere of press that is vastly different then what we experienced a few decades ago. It hard to avoid the news anymore, because it is everywhere!

What wasn’t confusing about this model? I really did not like the way he worded his article I felt that he was trying, unnecessarily, to sound intelligent which ended up making the article even more confusing. I sort of understood what he was trying to describe with his images in that the news in no linear, but is now a crazy combination between many different sources.

His opinion does relate to my personal experiences with the news. When I read the news I can see what Jarvis is talking about. Every article provides links to other sources for background information, data tables, numbers or charts. Along with this, if you scroll down to the bottom of every article there is always a space where other people comment on the article and express their opinion. In addition to expressing their own opinions often they we provide a link to another site, which starts the whole cycle over. It just seems like this sphere is never ending.