Hutchins Commission's Report

The Hutchins Commission released a report, which suggested that media is important to the development of social society. Since media is close to us in our daily lives, more and more sources are appearing. However, there are two types of media we have to know: new media and traditional media. Old media are traditional way of connection between people, which includes things such as television, radio, newspapers, etc. On the other hand, current technologies such as the internet, blogs and so on are described as new media. With the rapid growth of internet and the advances in technology, we have more than one way to touch the world, including blogs. Though blogs are not perfect, they are being increasingly used by everyone. Consequently, this growth in modern media has brought some challenges to the traditional news media. …show more content…
Blogs are difficult to supervise. There is too much information online, and people may not know how to choose what to read or which ones they should trust. Unlike newspaper or radio, they have someone to monitor and filter all the information. Because of the high requirement to become a journalist, they have the necessary skills to do proper investigation. Also, blogs would be hard for elderly to use too. Blogs are filled with variable qualities. Sometimes bloggers might use internet slang to convey their thoughts such as "lol", “ttyl”, and “gtg”. Some elderly may not understand this internet slang. Ttyl could be a novel written by Lauren Myracle rather than an internet slang “talk to you later”. This would be hard for them to