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DeMers (2008) discusses the evolution of news from print media to social media.  There are many different links in the article that gave examples or even went in depth about something that was already talked about in the article.  One of the referenced links reviewed was from a New York Times article discussing the extinction of print media (Carr, 2008). 

This article was a valuable resource because included in the article were other credible sources that were from interviews.  Also, Jayson DeMers is a business journalist with his email and contact information posted at the bottom of the page and there were recent publishing dates that stated when the article was printed and when it was put on the website. 

The original article (DeMers, 2008) further discussed how there is citizen journalism being used often to make sure that the station has coverage even when there are no journalists present.  This method helped a lot during many tragedies, and the articles used the Boston Bombing as an example.  The link that was used for information on the event was posted on Wikipedia.  As stated before, this is not a very reliable website for information because anyone can log on the site and change facts that they feel are incorrect.  Needless to say there is not author or contact information for the person that is writing it in the Wikipedia postings. 

This was a very important and popular subject around the world and had many articles that covered the story.  “Though many search engines rank material according to their idea of what is relevant, that doesn't mean the material is relevant to want you want or  is reliable” as stated by Montecino (para. 2, 1998).  There may be some credible information in the article, but you must check every statistic and statement you read.

With there being so many ways to gain information, everyone must make sure that they check everything for credibility at all times.  I think that with the fact that anyone can post what they want and call it news, it can make things confusing.  You could get three different versions of the truth.  This will make it more difficult for journalists to do their jobs, but also make sure that they go the extra mile to find the right sources.

Reference

Carr, D. (2008).  Mourning old media’s decline.  Retrieved from Website

            http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/business/media/29carr.html?_r=0

DeMers, J. (2013).  How social media is supporting a fundamental shift in journalism.  Retrieved

            from Website http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jayson-demers/how-social-media-is-

            suppo_b_3239076.html

Montecino, V. (1998).  Criteria to evaluate the credibility of WWW resources. Retrieved from

            Website http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/web-eval-sites.htm