A Comparative Analysis of News Sources: Newspapers, Social Media, & TV

This report provides an analysis of various news sources, including newspapers, social media platforms, and television channels. The author discusses their preferred sources, such as the USA Today newspaper, social media platforms like Facebook, and TV news channels like CBN, CBS, FOX, and CNN. The report highlights the advantages of newspapers, such as providing in-depth information and serving as a platform for advertisements, while also acknowledging the drawbacks, such as the time commitment required and the potential for biased reporting. The author contrasts this with the benefits of social media, including its ability to quickly disseminate information and reach a wide audience. However, the report also critiques the increasing focus on marketing and the spread of potentially false or sensationalized news, emphasizing the importance of journalistic ethics and the need for relevant, unbiased information. The report references several academic sources to support its analysis.

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Everyone has to keep updated about news prevailing in the world and get in touch with the
outside world. News is one of the most important things in most people’s lives. One’s in the day
at some point of time a person must engage with the news. What is happening on a local,
regional, national or global scale, one should have some information for regarding that news.
There are a number of ways to get the news the first and foremost way for grabbing news is a
newspaper, then TV & Radio. Recently people believe in getting updates from social media
whether it is Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or newspaper apps (Seiple, P. 2010).
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I personally prefer reading the newspaper daily from USA Today or I like to get it from social
media also. Facebook news pages keep people updated about the every second news. My
consistent follow pages Wall Street Journal! The Wall Street Journal, New York Times! The
New York Times, USA Today & Los Angeles Times. Watching news channel is also one of
favorite free time fun CBN news, CBNS, FOX & CNN are my current favorites to get informed
about the world economy.
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Reading newspaper one can keep well-informed of the current events all over the world
newspapers publish advertisements, producers, manufacturers and businessmen know what
things are in demand and what things they will push up for sale (Fornatale, P., & Mills, J. E. 1980).
Moreover, the buyers know where to seek for them. I get updated about every world from just

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one platform, whether it’s a sports news, crime news latest fashion news or international
economy news. Disliking about newspaper is you need a specific time to read it, purchase it
sometimes in some newspaper the news which are shown are false. The news are even twisted
and distorted.
The advantage of getting updated from social media is that busy people can form a judgment on
public affairs, social media cover masses to transfer the news all over the media while newspaper
cover few areas and section of the country. Person sometime miss important news if he/she not
updated with new feeds or avoid some news in a rush.
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Today’s news sources focusing more into marketing products and advertisement. Whether it’s a
newspaper or social media, many of the information is on the product launched, offer companies
providing and other irrelevant topic. The other this is that, these news reported extend the fights,
conflicts and other relationship of political parties, celebrity and other famous bodies. News
should be relevant and have important information for the public. Sometimes a reporter spread
fake Story and cross Unavoidable Constraints, they want to dig-out personal life of celebrities
and political party which is not good from journal ethics (Sharma, M. S. 2014)

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References
Fornatale, P., & Mills, J. E. (1980). Radio in the television age. Woodstock, NY
Seiple, P. (2010). How to Leverage Social Media for Public Relations Success.
Sharma, M. S. (2014). Department Of Communication Studies (Doctoral
dissertation, University Of Pune)
Chicago