There are, without a doubt, a broad variety of information sources from which we can gather our news: television, print, internet, radio, and each has enjoyed a dominance in one particular niche or another, or in one particular time or another. At first, it was the print media, specifically newspapers, that were the most popular, but they were also the only avenue for the public dissemination of information. Then, there was radio, which brought the voice and thus the personality of the reporter into the living room. Radio revived the oral-history tradition that had been so quickly fading. Then there was television which eclipsed both radio and print because it brought the voice, the pictures, and the stories to life - no other medium could actually put you live in the story as it was happening. Not, perhaps, until the internet came along. The internet allows for a very different news coverage - it allows for voice, video, and data transmission and access to every corner of the world simultaneously. In that light, one might think we'd all be chucking out our televisions, canceling our paper and magazine subscriptions, and strapping ourselves into our desk chair for the information ride of our lives. This, however, has not yet come to pass. The truth is that television is still superior to the internet in terms of news and information gathering and dissemination simply because people don't want to work for their news - they simply want to digest it. It is the purpose of this paper to discuss the nature of news dissemination today and to assert that television continues to be the most used and preferred avenue. APA format. 3-pages, bibliography lists 4 sources.
