Do Publications Continue To Exist Over Digital Media?

Print media is the periodicals that are given out in a printed form like newspapers, which are delivered to the public. These periodicals can be distributed manually or the customers can buy them. Publications are wide-ranging as different topics are covered in it. Some periodicals may feature only a particular section like sports, entertainment, business, politics, and lifestyle while other periodicals may cover current happenings in your area. bay area newspapers and other publications are the best way through which you can keep up with the latest events. These events could be in their community, state or country. You can also read about any special interests, if you have any. For example, there are cookery features in newspapers which are great material for cooking fans.

Advantages of print media:-

• It is cheap and handy.

• You don't need access to a computer to read the latest news, a periodical can be bought from the roadside also.

• Newspapers and magazines help customers remember information. The biggest plus to publications is that, it can visually kindle your memory. So, if you have an advertisements print, you can always remember it and keep it as reference.

• Social media and online content are mediums that have flourished today.But newsletters have been read since a century. Many of us would want to go back to reading those good old newspapers.

• Prints still keep you excited. Printed content seems more credible to people. You would probably respond to International newspapers classified than an online advertisement.

Is print media still useful?

To tell the truth, today, digital media is appropriate for national distribution. But, there is more importance given to print media by businesses, as it is also appropriate for local information.

Technology is occasionally annoying or excess of its use. Older people prefer following this medium. It is tricky for them to get a hang of the digital media. Also, you can even save more with it. Lots of people still prefer reading newspapers as they are portable and wireless. If you don't like the internet, you can use newspapers and magazines for marketing also. This way, you can find out your advertisement expenses for planning funds accordingly.

Print media directly connects with a huge niche of people. It is a great way of putting across to people, products, news, articles, even products on commercial terms. Digital media is not that astounding as it seems. People still love reading news papers with a cup of tea in the morning. For, the working group reading news via the internet is the best alternative. Even they can glance through a newspaper while just waiting at the airport! Regardless of what you do, prints are still preferred by a lot of us. Needless to say, print media continues to exist over digital media, owing to traditionalism that prevails among people.

Desi Tribune is a US based publication and the most credible among bay area newspapers. It covers all important local and international news. Its online version is available featuring current events in the US and the world.

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Global Media - Gee Whiz, Something is Terribly Amiss

In many regards it seems sometimes the media mettles too much into US politics. Often, they end up favoring a certain politician over another, and more often than not, it just happens to be the one which is spending the most money on advertising with that newspaper, their online version, or buying ads for the newspaper's website - convenient I'd say? Okay so, no revelation there, and as we grow older and watch the repeats of past history go around in circles every decade it tends to jade us and make us a tad bit cynical - but hey, that's politics and it's a messy business, as has been said.

Still, we do rely on our media to keep the politicians honest, and generally they love to stir up controversy which makes it a double-edged sword too. Freedom of the press therefore helps promote freedom and liberty, so that's a good thing, as long as those things I mentioned above don't get too far out of hand. Let's talk about this for a moment shall we?

The New York Times had an interesting article on April 4, 2012 titled; "In China Press, Best Coverage Cash Can Buy," by David Barboza which stated;

"China is notorious for censoring politically delicate news, but willing to print flattering news about businesses; if the price is right. Want a profile of your chief executive to appear in the Chinese version of Esquire? That will be about $20,000 a page, or get on a news program by state-run China Central Television? Pay $4,000 a minute, says a network consultant who arranges such appearances. A flattering piece in Workers' Daily, the Communist Party's propaganda paper $1 per Chinese character."

That same day there was another reminded of the cellular telephone scandal in the UK from one of their major newspapers. Couple that without our own challenges here at home and how our media seems to have become our fourth branch of government, often more powerful than the other three as it dictates policy and legislates from the pages. Where does all this go from here? Well, if we let it, that entire train could roll out of the high-speed station and leave us all behind, so, I'd say, let's not go there.

Still, how can we stop such things when the media has so much power, and the power brokers find ways to buy their way to political propaganda? That's a real catch-22 my friends, and with newspapers in the US hurting as bad as they are, they'd be more likely to take the money and confirm a little "I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine," at the expense of our nation's future, and our future liberty and freedom. Beware the industrial media complex. See my point? Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on 2012 Global Politics. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/

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Media Ethics: Inside Out

I was a young reporter eager to break the story. The tip came into my work email and I was ready.

A man that lived in an apartment complex wrote to me that for months he had seen several sheriff's office deputies sitting in the back parking lot of a church in his neighborhood. The man wrote that as many as ten deputies, sometimes more, would be outside of their patrol cars talking and drinking coffee for two hours plus, daily. What were they doing and why? Certainly his tax dollars could be put to better use by having these deputies out on the street. Sounds like a great story, right? It was, but for all the wrong reasons.

After pitching the story to my News Director, I was out the door with a small camera and an unmarked SUV with tinted windows. I visited the neighborhood three times over the course of a couple weeks. I setup the camera on a tripod in the back of the SUV. Over the course of two weeks I shot hours of video of exactly what our tipster said we'd find. I logged each patrol car I saw, and also the amount of time each deputy spent there.

Once we had the tipster's side of the story it was time to call the sheriff's office to find out what these deputies were up to.

The sheriff's office told me deputies would gather behind the church to get their daily reports signed off on by the shift supervisor. It's a lengthy process at times where the supervisor checks reports for accuracy and for the needed legal documentation. The location where deputies were meeting was picked because it was in the center of the district and the most viable spot for deputies with take home cruisers.

When I took all the information I had gathered to my news director, the story was a wash. Any coverage we gave the story wouldn't have been fair because the deputies weren't doing what we were told by our tipster. I filed the video and reporter notes in my bottom desk door and moved on.

A couple months later, I couldn't help but notice a sweeps story promotion for a competing station in the market. If you aren't familiar with sweeps, it's a ratings period for broadcast media where Nielsen meters homes and determines a newscasts viewership. Sweeps (February/May/July/November) is important because the more viewers a station gets, the more advertising dollars it can ask for.

The tease of the headline was tantalizing.... "Deputies caught slacking on the job. Tonight at 11."

You can imagine my shock and surprise when I looked and saw video of the same deputies, behind the same church that I had staked out.

The story later that night was everything you'd expect from a hard-hitting investigation. Gritty undercover video. A dramatic reporter voice track that itself called the deputies actions into question. The camera stormed the deputies in the parking lot and the reporter shouted out questions in a way that made the deputies guilty of something before they even had the opportunity to answer.

Because the sheriff's office knew we had looked into the story months prior and didn't run with it, I couldn't help myself but call the next day. Needless to say no one was happy. In fact, my contact with the sheriff's office was so displeased she wanted the story covered and was willing to give us inside details into the reasons the deputies gathered in the church parking lot.

As I approached my News Director a second time concerning the story, I got the green light.

One week later, our story hit the air. It detailed the circumstances that put deputies in the church parking lot everyday. Communication equipment wasn't advanced enough for deputies at the time to file their reports wirelessly. That led to a timely process of shift commanders county-wide having to sit and wait for deputies to bring them reports to be signed off on. In most cases, deputies would be off-the-clock behind the church just to get their reports completed so they could go home for the day. The sheriff's office gave us exclusive access and details into a new plan by the county to install laptops and wireless equipment in all of its cruisers to avoid situations like we saw at the church. The cost was rather dramatic which itself generated another story months later.

The same issue, two totally different stories!

This real-life example of media ethics is a great illustration of how stories can be morphed by the media outlet doing the story-telling. In the first example of the competing station the details were turned inside out, selectively picked to make the story more sensationalistic and to make the station appear more "hard-hitting" in the work it was doing for its viewers. Our story, on the other hand, got to the source of the problem. Although our coverage wasn't sensationalistic, it gave viewers an insightful and beneficial look into what the real problem was.

So what can you do as a viewer to better determine ethics in the news you get? For starters, don't buy into the hype. It is easy to identify a sensationalized story so next time one grabs your attention ask the tough questions when you watch, read or listen. Did this media outlet get both sides of the story? Could there be a deeper and different problem than the one the story focused on? Finally, does the story present any solutions from people interviewed? If you can't find these elements in the news that got your attention, chances are you aren't getting the whole story.

Because we are flooded with various media today, we all are exposed and impacted by ethics in media. It is up to us, the audience, to determine which media will get our attention and which gets discarded. The more people act as "watchdogs" of the kind of media they pay attention to, the quicker irresponsible journalists can be held to task.

Jason Lanning is a broadcast journalist from Tampa, FL and operates his own website addressing media ethics and his experience with irresponsible media.

Published articles and Jason's website not sponsored by or affiliated with any media organizations.

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Beware of the Media, It Will Melt Your Mind and Make You Stupid He Said

All it is, is mass brainwashing - dummying down society, he told me. Then he explained last year how he went down to the local newsstand right after the Giant Earthquake and Japanese Tsunami and what was on the cover? One headline about the mega-disaster and several stories about such things as "some football star having an affair with a prostitute and this is not an isolated incident it happens every day worldwide."

Sure enough and we all know he's right, we all observe the same thing really. Later he equated this to be one of the reasons there is very little creativity going on in the world, and that "the majority of people seem to be happy with being told what's good for them and when it's good for them by people they've never met and have never heard before. It's like watching a flock of sheep being herded by sheepdog, as long as it doesn't affect their television they're quite happy to accept anything they're told."

Again, he's right, and we all know this, and then he told me that he was much happier living in his flat in Europe alone, without having to deal with such a screwed up world. Okay so, if you feel the same way, which I am certain many of us do from time to time, here is what I told him:

Okay so, you are happy, you win, others are happy with they are doing, so they win also. If we take away what they perceive to make them happy, and censor what they can view in the media, that is really; shame on us. Now then, I'm not saying they are not to blame, or shouldn't exercise responsibility in what they watch or take in, in fact, shame on them also. But humans just want to be happy, they tend to do the things that make them happy, often above what's good for them. If we dictate what is good for everyone, they will end up living sterile lives, and unfulfilled.

In many regards many of the rules, regulations, and onerous dictates imposed in our society is causing depression amongst the masses. I don't find that to be good, as it leads to things like depression medicines, drug use, alcohol abuse, and all sorts of other bizarre behavior and activities. None of which is any good. The biggest challenge with making rules, or deciding what is good for other people, even if you have the greatest intentions, is you are doing nothing more than paving the road to hell, and causing them to have unfulfilled and unhappy lives.

You are happy, you win, may be they are happy doing what they are doing, even if that road leads basically to know where. But then again in the end no one has ever escaped Earth alive, and everyone's life experience appears to end at the time of their departing this reality as fully functional entity. So they may as well be happy while they're here, and who are we to say what should make them happy? You see that issue?

Maybe, if people want to stop thinking, let them, as long as they don't tell us intellectual people how to live our lives or force that nonsense on us, we should be happy they are happy, or at least believe they are happy in this case. Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/

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How Can Anyone Trust the Global Media?

There was an interesting piece not long ago how our society was losing trust - trust in what you ask? Well, trust in everything; religion, government, education, corporations, money, future economy, Internet, and news media. No, you probably aren't surprised, but I'd like to take this topic a bit deeper, and focus on only one point of contention, the global media, that's right; our news. Okay so, let's talk shall we?

The Columbia Business Journal had an interesting story recently published on April 23, 2012 titled; "Loneliness at the Foreign 'Bureau', News organizations exaggerate the size of their overseas newsrooms," by Justin D. Martin. The article stated for example that;

"The Washington Post has 16 foreign "bureaus" and 12 of them consist of just a single reporter, according to the newspaper's website. The four remaining bureaus all consist of two journalists. Is the Post using the word bureau a bit loosely? One Post reporter, Sudarsan Raghavan in Nairobi, is listed as the paper's "bureau chief in Africa." Raghavan is the chief of a bureau of one in Kenya - for the continent of Africa."

This revelation perhaps is not too surprising due to the massive cuts in the sector, however, if we can't trust the global media in this way then we cannot trust anything at all in the pages of these papers or online. Further, a single reporter/photographer/interviewer/writer/editor/scheduler/you name it, simply isn't sufficient to cover the main events in news in any town over 300,000 much less a large city of a million plus or 10 million, heck you can't even get across town in a half a day. There isn't enough time to verify either. It's a total misrepresentation.

Without trust in the media whether it be online media, TV, radio, or print media then all the news is in doubt. If information is universal and free, but it is also bogus in every regard, then people cannot use it to make valid decisions in the world, therefore, they'd be better off without it, and then well, we are back to square one, and freedom of the press hardly matters, because what they are doing with it isn't keeping us free, or news to begin with.

As the coordinator for a think tank which happens to operate online, I feel as if we've been hijacked by nonsensical mindless social media, global propaganda, educational brainwashing, and thus, we've lost control, there is no trust anymore. This can only lead to chaos down the road, and I am not talking about the Arab Perennial demonstrations, I am talking about the entire globe. This isn't working. Indeed, this one minor issue of "bureaus" cited by the purveyors of global media is only one of hundreds of problems we have, it's merely the tip of the ice berg. Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Political Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/

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The Media in the US Is Much Better Than in Other Nations - But Still Not Good Enough

If you are a reporter in some countries, you are a marked man and the government is watching you, and one slip up and you are history, you disappear, or are thrown in jail. In the United States we have freedom of the press thankfully, and although we export our products, know-how, and services all over the world, don't expect us to be able to export that as a "new found freedom" to ports afar. In fact, many nations are busy tightening down the reins on the media, and not just newspapers and TV either. Okay so, let's discuss this for a moment shall we?

Not long ago, an acquaintance from Australia said to me; "Modern media today such as news channels do not perform a truly non biased account of the events they broadcast on."

True, but we should expect them too considering how they are paid. If a media company gets money from, oh let's say the Obama Campaign for president, then they are going to run more favorable news content when his name is mentioned, and really this happens at all levels of government, no surprise there, local newspapers cater to those who spend the most on ads too, generally. I find the Murdoch scandal in the UK interesting with the cell-phone spying as well.

It's too bad that people believe everything they view in the media, my acquaintance notes that part of the challenge is the folks are just not educated as to how the media really works, true enough I say; yes, especially kids, and the lower IQ folks just take it all in as gospel, not that gospel is any better or reality based in and of itself. For instance, as my acquaintance correctly notes; "The child grows up looking at the television for both learning and entertainment, the TV becomes effectively a third parent and in doing so we lose the battle for the child's mind."

Right and a child's mind may not recognize the difference between advertising and reality, and to my acquaintance's comments, indeed, he's right; this is an empirically proven fact, he is correct. Do we need to teach our children better about these realities, it seems we do.

As a capitalist, I do not wish to diminish the media, it's a business, and that's fine, still a little education could go a long way. Now then if we'd teach children to think and question authority we'd be there, but we teach them to submit to authority instead, perhaps as a way to ensure they grow up and do not become trouble makers to the system or status quo.

Of course in doing so, eventually some of them will wake up and be VERY Pissed-Off for being lied too, which is probably why we have Hacker Groups, Disruptors, and even some mild-version terrorists. For the "powers that be" it's a challenge of getting the mix right, and it's a trade off.

If we teach kids early on of all the deception in our society, we are indeed, teaching them to deceive, and a lack of integrity also can bring down a society or prevent it from giving future generations a fair deal. We are also teaching them to be distrustful as well. Perhaps, we ought to be teaching the "philosophical" aspect, rather than the tactics.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/

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Sound and Fury, Media, Sports, and Distraction of the Mindless Masses

Some might love to use social networks, and who can blame them as they are designed for people to communicate in a way that makes them feel good about themselves. In China, the government wants to limit the time spent on social networks, as they want a productive and obedient society. That makes sense, 1.3 Billion people, with an unbalanced percentage of males, is quite a handful. In the US we see a dummying down of our populations - sure TV, social networks, and all the time wasted is not doing us any good. Okay so let's talk.

Not long ago, I was having this discussion with an acquaintance. Should we outlaw the use of social networks and limit people's TV time? Well, I believe we should allow people their pursuit of happiness, I don't want to limit their choices on how they spend their time, I don't want the heavy hand of government telling me what I must do either you see. My acquaintance noted;

"I agree with what you're saying about people's personal choices and decisions to make their lives happier. I understand that the most basic level people only want to be happy, the issue we run into is what makes one person happy does not serve everyone in the same way. Distraction is a tool in controlling the masses. Originally the distraction was religion over the years as science progressed leaders have found that mass media can replace religion in this area."

It seems the Aztecs, Romans, and other cultures used sports - fighting to the death. Some cultures had linked it to "penalties" for going against the rule of law, generally unilaterally made by some psychotic ruler, I use "psychotic" here as an extreme form of "psychopathic-psychotic" Machiavelli type.

Both my acquaintance and I did agree that we ought to enlighten and get our kids to understand how the media is affecting their minds, and thus, help them make reason of it all and then decide. That would be a great idea, and we might start by having them read up on Media Philosophers like; Herbert Marshall McLuhan, the famous Canadian media philosopher.

Right now, coincidentally, I am reading OBD - Obsessive Brand Disorder and have several books on the media worthy of reading. Often I equate the Media to being the Fourth Branch of Government in the US, as our government is set up with a Judicial, Legislative, and Executive Branch, but the Media controls all three it seems, as the government caters to the wishes of the people, which changes on a whim due to the media which owns the minds of the masses now. "He who controls the media, controls the minds of the masses," as someone once said. So, let's all please consider all this.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/

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Case Study - Overcoming Conspiracy Theories and Mass Media Hysteria Considered

With all the viral videos, emails, and social networking stuff, it's just amazing the amount of debris which gets thrown around these days? How is anyone suppose to know what is real. Now the media takes the most controversial replays, tweets, and videos and blows them further out of proportion, so who is to say what is real, what is phony, and what is Memorex via Photoshop editing? Ever wonder how rumors, conspiracy theories, and viral misdirection gets started? Yes, you probably have a good idea on that, after all, anyone with a computer, smart phone, or digital camera can get that snow ball rolling.

Still, how do you stop a conspiracy once it's started and any denial is met with the famous line; "plausible deniability" and you are back to square one, after all, you can't prove you didn't kick your dog can you? Certainly not. Okay so, let's talk about all this conspiracy theory about the New World Order, Trilateral Commission, and CFR or Council on Foreign Relations? How can CFR for instance, mitigate some of this, do a little PR, and prevent the need for future damage control?

Well, I'd also advise CFR to work to quell (through open communication channels) the over-the-top commentary of the late night talk show crowd on Coast-to-Coast Am conspiracy theory radio show and website (13-million listeners), by having various folks volunteers to talk with them, based on whatever they are talking about. That would help CFR from catching a "bad rap" or conspiracy theories driving the dialogue with the common citizens. It would also help in preventing all the negative viral emails which mention CFR in a bad light.

CFR is seen as too elitist and thus, often conspiritorialized which hurts your efforts, thus, it's been marginalized. Some of this might be deserved, most not, but folks judge CFR by the company they keep and human politicians are political animals, even if there is said to be honor amongst them? See that obvious point? Now then, here is how I envision solving this crisis management and damage control issue. Let the folks at Coast-to-Coast AM know that if they are going to be talking about an issue, and they do know their interview schedule, offer to have a dialogue and individual up on that topic available.

Thus, when anyone starts screaming New World Order, conspiracy theory, or anything of the like, the CFR has a voice of reason, and a real person answering questions and putting a rest to run-away unhealthy mental conspiracy challenges. Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Conspiracy Theories and Political Challenges. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/

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Global Media - Gee Whiz, Something is Terribly Amiss

In many regards it seems sometimes the media mettles too much into US politics. Often, they end up favoring a certain politician over another, and more often than not, it just happens to be the one which is spending the most money on advertising with that newspaper, their online version, or buying ads for the newspaper's website - convenient I'd say? Okay so, no revelation there, and as we grow older and watch the repeats of past history go around in circles every decade it tends to jade us and make us a tad bit cynical - but hey, that's politics and it's a messy business, as has been said.

Still, we do rely on our media to keep the politicians honest, and generally they love to stir up controversy which makes it a double-edged sword too. Freedom of the press therefore helps promote freedom and liberty, so that's a good thing, as long as those things I mentioned above don't get too far out of hand. Let's talk about this for a moment shall we?

The New York Times had an interesting article on April 4, 2012 titled; "In China Press, Best Coverage Cash Can Buy," by David Barboza which stated;

"China is notorious for censoring politically delicate news, but willing to print flattering news about businesses; if the price is right. Want a profile of your chief executive to appear in the Chinese version of Esquire? That will be about $20,000 a page, or get on a news program by state-run China Central Television? Pay $4,000 a minute, says a network consultant who arranges such appearances. A flattering piece in Workers' Daily, the Communist Party's propaganda paper $1 per Chinese character."

That same day there was another reminded of the cellular telephone scandal in the UK from one of their major newspapers. Couple that without our own challenges here at home and how our media seems to have become our fourth branch of government, often more powerful than the other three as it dictates policy and legislates from the pages. Where does all this go from here? Well, if we let it, that entire train could roll out of the high-speed station and leave us all behind, so, I'd say, let's not go there.

Still, how can we stop such things when the media has so much power, and the power brokers find ways to buy their way to political propaganda? That's a real catch-22 my friends, and with newspapers in the US hurting as bad as they are, they'd be more likely to take the money and confirm a little "I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine," at the expense of our nation's future, and our future liberty and freedom. Beware the industrial media complex. See my point? Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on 2012 Global Politics. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/

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