Get Specific Would Ya (Week 2)

As I was reading the article by Picard I couldn't help but agree with the point that he was trying to make. If I'm being honest with myself I have always been surprised that, as a journalist, I was getting paid to visit with people and then tell their stories for them. I know if they had the opportunity, and believed that people were genuinely interested, they would tell those stories on their own and with much more colorful detail and emotion. 

The concept of providing people with a voice is unnecessary these days. Everyone who wants to speak has a voice. The difference now is that there are so many voices that no one is listening. It's a question of supply and demand. There are so many suppliers of shallow and broad information, that, as Picard alludes, it is up to journalists to become experts in a specific area, or at least experts of a specific event or problem, and provide information that is in high demand with minimal suppliers. KXAN has decided that their expertise is investigative journalism. (see image)

Based on the writing of Patterson and the statistics that he presents in the introduction to his book, it is important that we provide more in-depth information for people to use in their daily decision making. Journalists are charged with highlighting the important information and providing context around it. 

Journalism, and the journalists that produce it, need to be less concerned with covering everything and demonstrate a better understanding of the information that is actually important and impactful to their audiences. People can get news anywhere, but they can only get journalism from journalists.