Blog Post 10 (2.4) The Press-Sphere

The press sphere is the way the by which the media circulates news and reaches the audience. The press sphere has become more intricate and complex over the last decade because of the exponential boom of technology- specifically the Internet. The press sphere used to be a relatively simple process: events took place, the news printed articles in the paper, people read it, and that was it. Now we have thousands of articles written about the same topic, most of which have their own biases and the reader now has a much greater task, or responsibility, in finding accurate accounts and analyses of the event. Jarvis refers to the press sphere as not only written news, but it takes into account sources, data, observations, witnesses, archives, government, business, and so on. It takes into account everything related to the creation of the event or story. An individual can now have access to nearly unlimited depth in an event because of the compilation of data that all fits into the big web that creates the story. Back before the internet it was extremely difficult to get much more information than was presented in the news article you read. You may have read a few different newspapers or listened to a radio or tv broadcast but there was no way of getting that information after it had aired. This press sphere Jarvis describes is definitely an infinitely expanding entity that collects the human experience.