Newspapers VS Social Media

The problem British Newspapers have is that they offer the news on their websites for free, when actually they should force people to pay for access to their sites by refusing access unless the person accessing the news websites is a paying customer. The Newspapers need to learn that 'money makes the world go round' in metaphorical speaking terms and to profit as they do in their printed versions, they need to adapt their thinking in a way that creates a want from the people again because I know as an aspiring journalist, that social media isn't real journalism but in it's own right social media offers news but most of the time it isn't collected and written by journalists, most of the time they are written by novices and amateurs which begs the question of why. Why do most of the younger generation believe that news should be free when actually news was formed as a money making enterprise and requires real qualified journalists who know their trade inside out to write and publish the news.

Journalism isn't just gathering information and presenting it to the world, it is far more than that, it can be video, recording interviews for example the videos that are played on lets say for example the 'BBC' TV Channels that are interviews are mostly pre-recorded and done so by film crew and qualified people who have worked their bums off to become journalists in the first place. I believe it is wrong for the younger generation who don't really have a clue as to how the business industry works to make decisions such as for example many younger generation people use social media for every piece of news they read which is making the industry die a bit more each and every day that they do.

Newspapers need to grow a backbone and refuse access to their online websites unless they are paying or even create a day pass or hourly passes for a price to view the journalistic content that engulfs their websites.

Think of it this way, Newspapers print editions cost money and you can buy them from shops locally and nationally but their websites do not cost anything, how can the people who think up these business models truly be of actual intelligent thinking when there is clearly a bad business model to charge for one service offering the same content but not another.

Which one would you choose? Print at a cost or Online for FREE!!!

Print Journalism is still the way forward in my opinion as an aspiring journalist myself I understand the strain on the industry and the amount of people who lose their jobs everytime a big newspaper closes it's doors due to under sales because of online media outlets or even their own FREE online sources. That really worries me.

Thank You

Nathan Williams