Zachary Ben-Haim CMM 348A Dr. Shakuntala Rao 20 October 2015 Data Insomniacs: the Groggy Blogger, and his Fight to End the Right of an Individual to Freedom of Expression The 21st century has bred an environment cluttered with advertisements, false news agencies, and more cat videos than some would like to believe. Furthermore, with the prevalence of the Internet in everyday life, it is mind-boggling how much information is constantly being created and processed everyday. The main issue that journalists face is being able to cut through the clutter so their work can be acknowledged. However the question of where an individual can exercise their right to free speech and when individuals use the right to free expression as an excuse for negligent
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It is important to note that the majority of the information created “is user-generated content,” Schmidt said. He stated that pictures, instant messages, tweets, etcetera all add to nearly five exabytes (1,000,000 terabytes) of data every forty-eight hours. So is it a surprise that society’s pursuit of information and innovation has degraded the prestige associated with journalists, as well as multi-media forms of journalism? The zeitgeist of this era produces individuals uninterested in factuality or even validity of sources of information. This leads to ill-educated individuals regurgitating misinformation and the degradation of society as a conscious whole. More importantly, journalists perpetuate this by creating scenarios, fake stories, and satirized news to cut through the overwhelming nonsense consumed by audiences today. Pursuing fame on through the journalism no longer has a path that new entrants to the field can follow. Through new media and societies willingness to indulge new styles of media, it sometimes becomes arduous to find fact based
It is important to note that the majority of the information created “is user-generated content,” Schmidt said. He stated that pictures, instant messages, tweets, etcetera all add to nearly five exabytes (1,000,000 terabytes) of data every forty-eight hours. So is it a surprise that society’s pursuit of information and innovation has degraded the prestige associated with journalists, as well as multi-media forms of journalism? The zeitgeist of this era produces individuals uninterested in factuality or even validity of sources of information. This leads to ill-educated individuals regurgitating misinformation and the degradation of society as a conscious whole. More importantly, journalists perpetuate this by creating scenarios, fake stories, and satirized news to cut through the overwhelming nonsense consumed by audiences today. Pursuing fame on through the journalism no longer has a path that new entrants to the field can follow. Through new media and societies willingness to indulge new styles of media, it sometimes becomes arduous to find fact based