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Passage:
“Yet he knows that in some ways he and his colleagues are trapped. “We are, collectively, much like eight-year-olds chasing a soccer ball”. He says. “Instead of finding ways of creating fresh, original, high-impact journalism, we’re way too eager to chase the same story everyone else is chasing, which is too often the easy story and too often the simplistic and too often the story that misses what’s going on”. Like most journalists, he does not think much will change, no matter how many speeches Obama makes.”

This is Ken Auletta concluding paragraph to his essay .In this passage Ken Auletta is commenting on what Peter Baker has to say about Obamas criticism of the media. When Baker talks about high-impact journalism he is referring to what he thinks is good journalism, ideas that are fresh and original. Ideas that will make a real impact on the people watching the news, rather than just a bunch of gossip, and opinions.

I think this passage shows how journalism has evolved because of the internet. There is so much going on in the world today that anyone can find the most controversial articles on the web, and we can share them with everybody else that we know. Usually via Facebook, Twitter or any other social media site. Many times these controversial articles that we all love to hear about may not be the most important ones. Sometimes the most important stories on the news are the ones that don’t stand out as much until you investigate them.