Our society has had an eye for newspapers for centuries. Newspapers offer convenient access and are fairly direct in their stories and messages. Newspapers give us the information we are searching for in a relatively short amount of time. Most stories people want to read about are distributed through newspapers very quickly. Journalists go through lots of work and different interviews with different people to give the best, liable story to the public. There are some people who do not read newspapers because they believe the information is “fake” or skewed. When big incidents or achievements occur, people tend to look towards newspapers to receive the full story. I see more enjoyment in older people reading newspapers than my generation. I believe the reason for this is because my generation will use their technology to find information that’s in newspapers faster than waiting for an article to come out.  Even if the information they find online seems not liable we still feel that we have found the answers just because it’s available on the internet.

Newspapers have existed since the roman times, dating back to modern newspapers called german style. In the 1600s newspapers were printed by the gutenberg’s printing press. The gutenberg printing press gave editors a high quality print that made materials print over 4,000 prints per day. The printing press made journalists happy because that meant their stories that they wanted published could be printed overnight and published the next day. In 1833 Benjamin Day first published “The Sun” which was a penny paper. The invention of penny paper was to be able to have a bigger audience of readers but affordable for everyone who was interested in reading the penny paper. When entering the journalist world you need to know a few important things before choosing this career path. Journalists need to think highly of themselves and to be truthful about everything they publish to the media. When being a journalist they want their audience to believe that there stories are true and factual not fake news. There isn’t one person in our society who wants to read a newspaper and when reading it they believe this information to be not true. A journalists career is over if they are caught publishing made up information or plagiarism, they have ruined the trust of the audience and ruining the reputation of the company they work for.

After watching this film you see the behind the scenes of a journalist and editor. The audience sees the nitty gritty play by play for a journalist. There are people in these corporations that do not want it out to the public for some time because they know the reaction it may cause. There is so much frustration that a journalist indoors when working on a story. They have to know when they cant record conversations or even write down what this person is saying during a questioning. when they have found a big story that needs to be shown to the public.

The movie Spotlight was very drama filled and exciting movie. The boston globe is incharge of getting a team together to publish a story about a priest who molested over 80 boys over the decade. At first the team had little to no information about what happen but they had to search in books and online sources till they got a lead to start working on publishing something. During the movie the reporters go out in boston to get information and stories about this incident with the priest. Many high class people knew for years that this incident had happen but pushed it under the table. They knew it would look very bad for there town and company if this got out ever. It was said that 53% of the people who read The Boston Globe were catholic and would be very upset about the story being on a headline.

My question is will newspapers continue to influence our society or fade out in our generation?