WCAX Online Vs News Broadcast

As discussed in class on Tuesday, it does in fact seem as though stories are almost taken straight off of the teleprompter and pasted to the internet. For example, when reading these stories they are often not put into proper paragraphing, using single sentances as one paragraph. They're also not worded as a story in the newspaper would be, as there is no real introduction or closing to the text. It seems as if they just plainly post the things that the broadcasters read off of the screen. It's not so much persuasive writing, but just plain facts and quotes. Just enough to get the story across.
More obvious, there is generally a lack of graphics and footage. It is possible to in fact create a link to watch the broadcast, but they failed to do so here.

New Media II

While watching both the news and then reading print media to follow, you may notice a few similarities and differences in the way the stories are brought to the publics attention. The top country stories at the time I observed were the severe storms taking place in the Southwest, with more severe to come by the weekend. They also followed up with noting the severe storms hitting Northern Europe. The other story that seemed to be of importance were the Chinese missle tests, which blew out a weather satellite and raised concerns about the problem of space junk, as well as the fact that China may also be able to hit US communication satellites.

Now, following up with the New York Times the next morning, a few things could be noted. Television is able to show pictures and footage of actual events, as well as the fact that they are broadcasted by an anchor, and can be made to sound of mroe importance that way. Print media relies on words and gripping text to catch the publics attention. When watching the news, they did in fact show footage of the storms and such to convey the urgency of the problem, whereas the New York Times used bold text and a selected vocabulary to convey their point.

I would have to say I was more captivated by the television broadcast, but thats just the advantage that broadcast journalism has over print, making print journalists have to work a little harder to get a story across.

Internet Timeline

The history of the internet began in the late 1950's. The first major instance took place in 1957, when the first artificial sattelite, Sputnik, was launched into space by the USSR. In response, the US government started ARPA, Advanced Research Projects Agency. The US did this in attempt to become the world leader in science and technology. Nine years later in 1965, ARPA hosted a study on "cooperative network of time-sharing computers." A few years later, two computers, one from MIT and another from the SDC, were connected to a 1200bps phoneline.
In 1971 a network is finally developed at UCLA, Stanford, UC- Santa Barbara, Univeristy of Utah, Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., MIT, RAND, SDC, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, Upper Iowa University, Case Western Reserve University, Central Michigan University, and NASA.
In 1975, the first all inclusive e-mail program is developed by John Vittal. Then is 1984, the domain name system is developed. ( i.e.: .com, .edu, & .gov .) In 1990 the Internet is finally introduced to the public with access through dial-up provided by World.std.com .
The World Wide Web is released by The European Organization for Nuclear Research in 1991. Three years later, shopping malls, banks, radio stations, and advertising become commonplace online. The next year, companies like Comupserve, AOL, and Prodigy put households across the world online. In 1999, companies begin providing free computers to the public with a signed contract for Internet service. The next year in 2000, the size of the web is established to exceed 1 billion pages. Napster is also in full swing.
By the year 2004, Network Solutions offers the one hundred year domain name registration.

• Currenty, the percentage of Americans online is 63%, and increasing.
• 39% of homes use dial-up today, versus the 59% that use high-speed.
• Tim Berners Lee was the inventor of the World Wide Web.
• Vannevar Bush died before the invention of the World Wide Web. But, his 1945 article entitled "As We May Think", gave the initial idea for what today is known as hypertext. In his article, Bush described an idea of a machine called the "memex." This machine would allow the user to store and retrieve documents linked by associations, as hypertext does today.

Sources:

http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/important-events-in-the-history-of-the-world-wide-web.html