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Describe major characteristics that distinguish writing news items for print, broadcasting, and the Internet.

I answered this question like this ( yes I do my own homework):

The Web (internet) offers more potential for displaying vast amounts of information in comparison with print and broadcasting because of capacity, flexibility, and immediacy.
Capacity of the Web is greater than Television, radio, and newspapers because more information can be disclosed.
Flexibility of the Web is greater because it can facilitate words, pictures, audio, video, and graphics. Print and broadcasting are limited because of time and methods of news content delivery.

Immediacy of the web is closely matched with broadcasting because information can be immediately conveyed; however variety, expansion, depth, content and permanence are criteria for competition between broadcasting and the Web. Obviously newspapers cannot meet the immediate requirements to convey news content like broadcasting and the Web.

Variety allows information at your finger tips via the Web; whereas with broadcasting you may have to listen to unimportant information in order to get to the information you seek to obtain.

Expansion: Broadcast only conveys one detail at a time; whereas with the Web any information can be obtained by using the right search engine. The Web allows you to get the information you want rather than what the broadcast believes to be important.

Depth: Closely compared to capacity but has more to do with the quality of information you receive. The Web offers better quality information. The broadcast professionals have no cushion between them and the breaking news story; whereas the Web authors have time to review the information and edit their work before it is distributed, thus creating better quality work.

Context: The Web has the power to sum up, keep posted, and insert various points of the content; whereas broadcast is generally live.

Print media and broadcasting offer no ways to interact with the content; whereas the Web does. Print journalism offers the same benefits that Web journalism offers but only more benefits are affiliated with the Web.

All of the above is criteria for writing items for print, broadcasting, and internet. I think it is safe to say that the Web is the best option for writing and is the future of journalism.

Anyone out there taken CMC 220 at Axia? Is this to much information for a DQ? Does anyone think I should reduce my response or change it in any way? Just looking for feedback.

I’m taking that course now, and nobody answered that question with as much detail as you have! I think you’ve spent all that time on it, definitely post it as is. It’s a great answer, don’t spend any more time on it. It is a bit on the long side, but I wouldn’t worry about it. Nothing bugs me more than a two-sentence response!

What’s the best brand of television and place to buy a televison?

I’m moving into a house that has a space in the wall for a Television. What’s the best tv for a large room? Which technology is better, plasma or lcd or tube?

Tube gives you a fantastic picture, but you better not mind a TV weighing nearly 200lbs (or even more). Plasma is fantastic, it has a quick response time and excellent color. It’s also more vulnerable to burn-in from the choices given, but the newer ones have much long lifetimes and are much less problematic about burn-in than old ones.

If you plan to keep the TV for a long, long time, LCD is probably the best choice since it will retain it’s picture quality for a very long time and still have a pretty good picture. Although, they have the slowest response times of the three (that will only really matter if you’re a gamer).

Panasonic TH-46PZ85U Television

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PRODUCT FEATURES:

46″ class (46.0″ diagonal) widescreen VIERA Plasma 1080p HDTV with increased native contrast ratio

PC input

Anti-reflective filter, deep color technology

Game mode

Built-in SD card slot

GalleryPlayer ready to view

3 HDMI inputs

VIERA Link HDAVI control

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