THE NEWS!

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“Peter Baker says that a reporter covering his beat ten years ago had ‘the luxury of writing for the next day’s newspaper. He had atleast a few hours to call people, access information, to provide context. Today, as much as you want to do that, by the time your deadline comes around you’ve already filed for the web’—often more than once. In between times, you’ve filed for radio, and appeared on TV, and maybe done a podcast or a blog. ‘When do you have time to call experts? When do you have time to sort through data and information and do your own research? Even with a well-staffed news organization, we are hostages to the non-stop, never-ending, file-it-now, get-on-the-Web, get-on-the-radio, get-on-TV media environment.’”

2. Obviously, Peter Baker is saying it, and speaking about the ongoing, fast paced web, and need to update our everyday lives and what is going on in the world.

3. My passage, seems important in the fact that it is contrasting to show how the news differs now from just a decade ago. I like the fact that he bring in that “a well-staffed news organization” because before I thought they were just talking about one person doing all that work, but then it shows that it takes many people to do those tasks.

4. I chose this passage because it seems to be really important in getting the full image of what the news room is like and how fast paced and together it really is.