I'm a news junkie. Or was. In a house with a kids and an home office, news is something that is caught on the fly. Before kids when I worked at home, I always had the TV any of the non-stop news channels as my company. It made me feel I was part of the flow of the world, even though I stayed in one room almost the whole day. Heck, I almost knew the news before they happened.Those were the times...
Now I almost never have the time to catch the TV news (and it's not lack of TVs - we have 5 in the house, which is absolutely crazy considering the minimum time we watch) but at least I try to read the front page of all the sections of the morning paper.
But something I ALWAYS do - and this is really the age of the computer - is read the news online. The Swedish news. Especially the Stockholm news.
Now here is a phenomena that I don't have a name for. The old mass communication theory that "geographical proximity" is important when communicating really must have lost some of it's value. Or what am I doing checking up what's up in Stockholm? I'm thousands of miles away (8506 km to be exact).
I love DN's (major Swedish newspaper) new Stockholm section where I can read important news such as the possible future color of the Royal Castle (I'm conservative, it should stay the same so I don't feel lost when I come back).
What did previous aliens do before the internet?? Isn't this just the best time?
Or is it even better to come? A day when you will find a copy of New York Times and Dagens Nyheter on your drive way in the morning?
6 comments:
Finns det något bättre än att sätta sig med en stor "balja" kaffe och kolla nyheterna runt om världen. Jag har samma ordning varje morgon....SvD, DN, Metro, BBC, CNN, Atlanta Journal and Consitution och sedan "rodnar"
People.com ...måste få lite skvaller också....
Och jag som röstade på att slottet skulle bli rosa...Du håller inte med, alltså :-)))
DN är en sådan BRA tidning. Den bästa! Och jag håller med om att den nya Sthlms delen är mkt trevlig!!!
Förresten, jag gillar att Fia läser People.com!!!
Fia - vi har nästan samma tågordning - har en "News" mapp i min bookmarklista jag försöker gå igenom. Metro har jag inte med där - men så har jag en branschtidning. Kanske måste lägga till People.com - det är för lite glamour i livet! *fniss*
Annika - rosa såg för mycket ut som stor gräddbakelse. ;-) Ja - jag saknar verkligen mina Stockholmstidningar. När jag pluggade ett år i USA hade jag söndags-DN som kom en gång i veckan. Men nu förtiden är ju nyheterna så snabba att det bara blir jättekonstigt att läsa i efterhand...
Jacal!!! jag har utmanat dig på min blogg!!! Come check out the rules!!! Du får väl översätta fr sve. till eng här på din blogg :-)))
OK, just because I teach these things: according to Herbert Gans' theory, geographical proxemity is only one of the components making up newsworthiness. He also talks about 2. something like 'cultural proxemity' (I don;t remember his concept, but it has to do with culture), and 3. time. And voila! what you do makes perfect sense, no?
Annika - oh gosh - do I dare... ;-)
Lotta K - yup - makes perfect sense! ;-) And I guess you could say that the "emotional part" of "cultural proximity" is growing stronger when "geographical proximity" is loosing strength. I wonder how the "newsworthiness" components are being effected by the phenomena of the internet as a channel. It was awhile since my university years, it sure would be fun to re-take those classes now, 15 years later with what's going on right now.
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