Online news sources like Yahoo!, Buzzfeed, and CBCs website are growing in popularity more and more every day. The convenience of coming home from work or school and having immediate access to the news of the day is far greater than waiting until 6 p.m. or 11 p.m., and all the other conveniences of online news are just added benefits to an already successful industry. The culture of most first-world countries depends heavily on news, and news depends heavily on them. The democratic governments of these countries, however, have experienced some tension with these new forms of media.
When news went international, people were astounded to hear the stories of others who lived across continents or oceans. Wars and disasters in the United Kingdom were covered in the United States. A Canadian could pick up a paper and learn of Australia or South Africa. This publicizing of stories to a global public instead of a local one was a flagship project that would lead the world into a booming culture that acted as a single entity - international awareness.
Democracy is defined as follows: government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. By this definition, and by the obvious display of freedom in democracy, …show more content…
The news of what was in the files spread like wildfire, and every talk show and morning special had to have the latest on what Snowden had told those journalists. Snowden was later tried as a criminal and was charged with espionage. The files and secrets were revealed to the public in such a way, that the very same public started to rise up against the information found in the files in question. This started controversy amongst the American public and the American government, as well as the governments of many other
When news went international, people were astounded to hear the stories of others who lived across continents or oceans. Wars and disasters in the United Kingdom were covered in the United States. A Canadian could pick up a paper and learn of Australia or South Africa. This publicizing of stories to a global public instead of a local one was a flagship project that would lead the world into a booming culture that acted as a single entity - international awareness.
Democracy is defined as follows: government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. By this definition, and by the obvious display of freedom in democracy, …show more content…
The news of what was in the files spread like wildfire, and every talk show and morning special had to have the latest on what Snowden had told those journalists. Snowden was later tried as a criminal and was charged with espionage. The files and secrets were revealed to the public in such a way, that the very same public started to rise up against the information found in the files in question. This started controversy amongst the American public and the American government, as well as the governments of many other