In this clip from a 2008 episode, Nelson ridicules Dan Rather by saying, "Ha ha, your medium is dying." Nelson has a good point.
The Media landscape is changing and as a student studying print journalism I am worried. Newspaper and magazine revenues are continuing to decline, hey, I cancelled my subscription to The Gazette just last month. I could get everything I need online anyway.
Things are changing and the clear demise of print journalism has now begun to pervade popular culture.
In a 2004 episode of The Simpsons, Lisa Simpson attempts to challenge what she calls the "corrupt media" and starts a newspaper with the sole goal of uncovering the truth. Soon after though, all citizens of Springfield follow Lisa's lead and everyone in town has their own unique newspapers.
This new trend leads Homer to say, "See Lisa, instead of one big-shot controlling all media, now there's a thousand freaks xeroxing their worthless opinions."
The Simpsons are clearly mocking the advance of citizen journalsim, the role of reporters, and the demise of traditional Journalism as we once knew it.
Where does that leave me?
I am attempting to take cues from our transforming medium and I am beginning to prepare myself with the tools necessary for an unsure, unceratin, and dubious future in journalism.
I have begun read and appreciate blogs and I have even started my own blog devoted to one of many passions, food and fashion.
True newspaper and magazine readership is suffering, but The Simpsons weekly audience is shrinking too.
Ha ha.
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