One of the
activities that eat up a huge chunk of my online time is reading articles.
Sometimes I catch up on news, sometimes I read on social commentary, gossip, and whatnots like Buzzfeed,
Thoughtcatalog, etc (my favorite is Lifehacker). While it is of course healthy
to take a peep into the perspectives of different people from different belief
systems, there are times when I think some of these are just carefully-worded
junk. It's funny how people with twisted reasoning can gain sympathy and
believers by simply relying on witty rhetoric. But then again that's what makes
the internet interesting.
Even if I love
reading these articles, I'm realizing that the overload of content and the fact
that just about anyone can publish their work, is turning this end of online
content into a pile of confused mess.
Just like how videos of cute dogs and cats can now be considered junk
because there's just waaaaaaaaay too much of them. It can be tricky to sort
through the ones with real value.
Even self-declared
news websites can produce a lot of crap nowadays (though not all really). If in
the pre-internet era you can trust all the facts you see in new articles,
nowadays you'd have to take things with a grain of salt because they tend to
make typographical mistakes, errors in citing references, and sometimes even
their facts are just downright wrong. I don't really get what their editors are
doing, but I think they're less strict on their online articles because they
know that they can undo their errors by simply hitting the "edit"
button. And all this while acting like arrogant journalists at that (*ehem*ehem*tamaan-na-ang-tatamaan*lol).
Anyway, this line of
thought has prompted me to rediscover the one medium that has been grossly
affected by the rise of online journalism - the newspapers.
