Forward or Counter?

After reading Jeff Jarvis’s “The Press Becomes the Press-Sphere,” the connotation is rather harsh. I feel Jarvis views the press as a stepping-stone towards what a final story becomes. Through this distortion itself, comes the actual story and information. The reason is because through commentary, blog posts, and reporting, come different aspects of the story, that as a whole collaborate to make one big story that is to be shared to the public. Because in my way of receiving stories and news, the way in which a story gets to me changes drastically as the source changes. For instance, if I get my news from the Television, then more than likely my story will be in the exact spot in which Jarvis placed it, or if I receive my news from peers, then my story line may be a bit more extended and have more components that allow it to become a story. There are so many ways in which news becomes someone’s own personal story by the end of the day. It takes a community to create a story, and it takes an individual to complete it.

I tried to edit the sentences that were countering and change them into ones that were more forwarding. Instead of being negative and going against his way of thinking, I simply tried to take his writing and ideas, and go off in a new direction. I interpreted his sense of how writing in the media is portrayed through his mind, and I took my interpretation of the article, and came up with my own understanding of Jarvis’s words.