Epic 2015

Epic 2015 offered interesting insight into the future of how news is disseminated among the public. I understand one company or a mixture of the top two companies wanting to monopolize an industry, but I do not see the consumers allowing this to happen. The name Google although it is well known and used constantly in conversation and when accessing something on the web is not a trustworthy source on its own. Google just identifies and links consumers with information from other trusted sources. Google does not actually create the information. Without independent news sources, Google would cease to be important in this realm of cyber information. If Google eventually became a source that accumulated bits and pieces of information posted by different people online, the information Google posted would be considered irrelevant among consumers. Personally, I do not necessarily trust a report of information from any individual with the ability to post something online. I trust that a professional news source will report by fact with either a stated bias or with no bias at all. If all there was left in the world was bits of information collected from random peoples posts of an incident, I would no longer feel compelled to read or pay attention to what is being reported, whether it be restated and delivered to me by Google or any other non-worthy source.

If news was reported by the people instead of by journalist, we as a society would attack ourselves. News would be reported in such a biased way that horrible violence would ensue from the misinformation. I do not see professional news organizations going anywhere. I do believe that paper based news is becoming obsolete, but not the actual news source as a whole. I think professional news sources are becoming stronger. Since there are so many professional news sources at our fingertips, it is imperative that each one deliver the most fact based, unbiased information available.  Google will enter into this or take over an industry as elite as professional news delivery.