Upon reflection I don't feel that my Artifact Selection Essay fully addressed my hopes for the assignment. I chose to study newspapers because I have several huge beefs concerning what they have become. I touched on some of these in my actual essay but struggled to fully explain them within the style of writing which I had already wrote most of my paper in. I have chosen Newspapers partly because I am horribly offended by their content; both in regard towards the dumbed-down subject matter and also towards the poor language and mechanics of the writing in it of itself.
But the main and perhaps more interesting,(at least the less rant-inducing), reason for my choice is how radically our focus has changed from print newspapers, with well-researched and thoughtfully written articles, to politically charged, reactionary pieces which people usually prefer to view on an online news source. The news has become almost pornographic in that it is not at all about keeping oneself informed about the goings on of the world but has everything to do with getting the next "fix" of political bile. Also, why are people more inclined to read Yahoo news online than to pick up the Dallas Morning News? A classmate recently told me that she never reads the newspaper, that she doesn't even think about it. I wish now that I had asked her "why not?". I wish to, by the end of the semester, be able to answer the question "where is all this eventually leading us as a society?".
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