'Build The Wall analysis'

'Build The Wall analysis'

To all of the bystanders reading this the true audience for this essay narrows necessarily to a pair of notables who have it in their power to save high-end journalism—two newspaper executives who can rescue an imploding industry and thereby achieve an essential civic good for the nation.

Truth is, a halting movement toward the creation of an online subscription model already exists will it work? Is there enough demand for old-line, high-end journalism in the age of new media? Will readers pay for what they have already accepted as free? There is no going backward, they will declare, affronted by the idea that a victory already claimed can even be questioned. The newspaper is all but dead. Long live the citizen journalist.

The third point was about the newspaper industry not spotting the early developments of new and digital media which has made them lag behind and not able to do much about this development. In the beginning the newspaper industry didn’t take the changes seriously so the rapid expansion happened like a disease

The fourth paragraph is about 3 scenarios of a pay wall. The first scenario is about how the audience would be willing to pay if there was a pay wall as the news would be high quality. The second point was about newspapers become local to their regions and online pay walls go up. The final scenario states that all small newspapers are eviscerated and only unique and essential newspapers have survived.

Summary

This article is his personal view about the struggle of the news industry. The article starts off with the explanation of newspapers having high quality professional journalism, that is paid for, rather than citizen journalism that is unprofessional and if the audience is not willing to pay for their news they shouldn’t receive it at all. He talks about the pros and cons of the big institutions and where they went wrong with not seeing the developments early. The end of the article talks about the three scenarios.

My opinion

My opinion is that newspapers were the original sources of news on all platforms as news was first written and sent out through them. That has changed as there is a development of new and digital media which has allowed consumers to access news in different ways. These developments have allowed faster ways to access news.

I think that if a pay wall should go up it will drive away the little audience it has, this is because the audience have other sources plus they already have been getting it for free.