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To getting more concern about the news around us and getting more knowledge about the world, newspaper is the best media for us to get more information by words and the authentic images. Obviously, news are important for us by knowing the things that we do not know but follow the new trend, blogs are comes to helping or maybe replace the value of newspaper to transform the news with more attractiveness and effectiveness.
According to the article from Mediashift, 2010, Roland Legrand said that “Newsrooms Should Use Blogs to Battle Bloat, Complexity”. Why blogs? Large newspapers are very complex organizations. Producing a newspaper involves a newsroom with reporters, editors, news managers, graphics editors, a picture desk, several layers of people and technology for the printing process, et, whereas in blogs, it is only use on maybe one or two journalist to write the articles and posting some images or video that are showing more reality. Running a blog is much simpler than producing a newspaper and website. Blogs started out as one-person projects and have developed into a formidable media form. If you want to get up-to-date news and analysis about technology, chances are that subscribing to the feeds of a number of tech blogs will help you more than reading mainstream newspapers (Roland Legrand, 2010).
Nowadays, readers are prefer to read a short article with full of images or video that can brings more effectiveness for them. As we all know, readers in new trend starting to become more and lazier on reading news with full of words, they will more interest in reading a page of article with colorful images and video with sounds. According to walsh( 2006, pp. 30) agreed that, Internet sites vary in the modes they use, but they have the potential to combine words and images in complex structures with logos, …video clips, graphics, music… Kress and Van Leeuwen(2006,pp. 17), also mentioned that “ Most text now involved a complex interplay of written text, images and other graphic or sound elements.
On the other hand, telling news with using video and soundtrack, it will be attract more interest and attention from audiences rather than reading words by words. Based on Gary P. Handman(2002, pp.5) said, video brings pictures, motion, sound, and timing to storytelling. Good video stories rely on more words, and use scenery and action to flesh out a story in ways that words may not do as well.
In fact, some of the newspaper already created their own blogs inside their web pages, for example, New Straits Time in Malaysia. It is useful for create a blogs which recover all the news around the world, because by follow the new trend and technology, I believe that blogs is the way that people more acceptable in future.
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References List
- MediaShift 2010, [online], Newsrooms should use blogs to battle bloat, complexity, viewed 8 Nov 2010, available at:
- Walsh, M 2006, ‘Textual shift: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts,’ Australian journal of language and literacy, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 30.
- Kress, G & van Leeuwen, T 2006, 'Chapter 1: The semiotic landscape: language and visual communication' in Reading images, pp. 17: the grammar of visual design, 2nd edn, Routledge, London.
- Gary P. Handman, 2010, [online], Video collection development in multi-type libraries, chp 1, pp.5, viewed 8 Nov 2010, available at:
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