Through his article "Bad Days for Newsrooms" Chris Hedges argues it cannot be inferred that the internet is completely to blame for the decline of newsprint. A major reason for cut back in newsrooms is the lack of "public responsibility". When it comes to uncovering stories and gathering all of the necessary entities to produce and spread news, news staffs have almost become too lazy. When considering all of the expenses it takes to print just one edition of a newspaper it is almost not worth the minimal profit, especially when the staff is not willing to put in the effort to make a sensational newspaper. The rising corporate power houses are also to blame for the decline of print news. The population has become less amused with actual news events and have turned to more entertaining shows such as, TMZ which gathers information about current social events.
The major difference between Hedge's article and Clive Thompson's "Clive Thompson on New Literacy" is that Thompson argues the new forms of communication through internet technology have revolutionized modern writing and language. People of today's generation are beginning to write outside of school, where in previous years writing rarely occurred without a school based reason. Both Thompson and Hedges attempt to show that writing is now done mostly for entertainment. Most of today's society is using internet writing as a means of communication and to spread information quickly and efficiently.
Advances of modern technology have helped to improve language and writing. With proper teaching any student can learn the difference between "text talk" and formal writing language. I personally believe that if there is no reason to write out full words and phrases that short hand is acceptable to make life easier. Why would you make writing and communicating more difficult than necessary?
