The Challenges With Writing Today

One of the biggest challenge in writing for today’s world is ironically social media. Even though all of the advances in technology amaze me and being an 20 year old I am probably obsessed with it I think it has changed the way we have decided to talk to one another.  Sometimes when I'm typing a paper for English I will find myself typing in slang as if I were sending a text…I know scary.

Should there be a certain way to  write when writing on social media than there is in print news and broadcast news? It is almost as if social media has moved itself away form the idea of online web writing and transformed into a whole new genre. How can journalists branch out and cover all of the genres of news sources when there are so many?

Another issue Journalists struggle with is writing fairly.

Here  is a link to an article saying that most Americans get their news from TV :  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/americans-tv-news-gallup_n_3560831.html

However I beg to differ, I believe most people get their news sources from social media! With everyone using their smart phones and having social media literally at the tips of their fingers I believe social media trumps all for news sources. 

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