Greta von Zielinski

My Media Pyramid

January 26, 2011

In the age of new media, when there are so many different options as to how to get one can acquire information, it is important to recognize one’s own personal “media pyramid.”

Although my pyramid is constantly evolving, I can’t deny that my main source of news information comes from:

• The Web

• Emails from my family and friends

• Posts that my friends have made on Facebook
  

  After these three sources, I get my information from the following sources, in descending order of importance

  • Bloggers such as Perez Hilton
  • My iPhone
  • Television news stations such as Fox and CNN
  • Print and online newspapers, such as Huffington Post and Washington Post
  • Radio stations (WMAL, Hot 99.5, DC101)
  • Twitter

In thinking about one’s media pyramid, a potential journalist will realize that he or she perhaps needs to begin going to more legitimate news sources more than he or she maybe had in the past. If a journalist is ill-informed about world affairs that matter to the general public, how can her or she be expected to deliver articles that his or her audience will want to read?

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