Sullivan and Jarvis, while describing different things to different audiences, both articulate similar points regarding how the structure of journalism is changing. When describing how blogging contrasts to traditional journalism, one of Sullivan’s primary points is how blogging is more of a continuing story. Sullivan describes blogging as essentially a journalistic journey in backwards chronological order, without an ending. Jarvis has a similar belief regarding, describing a never-ending news cycle. Jarvis states that this new news-cycle shows how a story develops over time and becomes endless. The relates to Sullivan because his blog offers continual follow-up analysis on a story, without presenting a clear end to it.
Regarding this idea that news cycles now never end, Sullivan offers more insight and explanation for how this changes journalism. Sullivan describes this new journalism as rather conversational. He describes news as being reported hourly as opposed to daily, and mentions how much of the content of his blog is reader-generated. Jarvis mentioned how people are more likely to get their news from a variety of sources that are within a close proximity to them, and this relates to Sullivan’s claim that readers now effect how the news is reported. Both ideas support Jarvis’ claim that the press editors now have a diminished role, because the focus is now generated more by the reader.
Jarvis, more so than Sullivan, explains how this change in journalism will affect how people will seek out their news. Jarvis explains how this new influx of available information will make news-gathering effortless, explaining how many don’t look for the news because the news essentially finds them. It can be argued that this idea coincides with Sullivan’s theory about how journalism has turned into essentially a collective conversation. There is such an availability of news and analysis of said news (e.g. Sullivan and The Daily Dish), therefore how people go about gathering the news will change as well.
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Good comparison of Sullivan and Harris on the cycles of news.
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