Society has traditionally used the mainstream news organizations to filter information for us. World events aren’t anything new to the internet-era. Throughout history we still fought in wars, suffered through recessions and depressions, elected presidents and representatives, married loved-ones, attended graduations and rallies. Events have always occurred over the course of time. In the 1900s the media reported these events in the form of print, radio, and television. Real-world events were described in printed words and vocalized over the airwaves by the mainstream news outlets. The ability for one to describe world events was financially constrained. Not everyone could afford to own a newspaper, radio station, or television network. The limited number of media outlets meant less information available and less information to digest.

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The internet, however, has fundamentally changed the landscape. News organizations continue to maintain some power under this new medium. For the first time ever, however, the billions of connected people can also produce and consume news. This has led to an explosion in the amount of information available. The internet makes publishing news cheap and easy and it has also made consuming news cheap and easy. These two lead to an inordinate amount of information available to us, more than any society has seen in the history of the world.

The emergence of the internet over the last two decades has led to a proliferation of technologies to facilitate the publishing and consumption of information for the average person. In the next 10 years, however, expect the opposite to happen. The powerful technologies will be the ones that adequately confine and intelligently funnel only relevant news to people. Nobody can effectively cover all sources including web sites, blogs, and social networking sites. We don’t have the time and we don’t have the energy. We need technology to help us. Expect the next to wave of innovation to include more intelligent news sites that effectively and efficiently distill information for us.

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Then, of course, I could buy a daily newspaper, sometimes two or even a third, to get a different slant on the same news stories… or even information about a story that didn’t show up on the TV news program.

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That wasn’t bad, but it’s nothing like what is available to me today. To begin, I have access to a personal computer. That enables me to read newspapers online for daily information plus access blogs for political and world news. I have a radio… so I can listen to news and information shows in which political opinions about events are expressed every day. They’re informative and entertaining.

But, the best option I have, the one I enjoy more than any other is the non-stop access to news and information available to me as a subscriber to a TV programming service that gives me an almost unlimited menu of TV shows that I can watch and enjoy, including many around-the-clock, “all news-all the time” networks.

The most prominent of these networks are all Cable News Services – Fox Cable News Network… MSNBC (owned and operated by NBC, of course)… and CNN (Cable News Network), the originator of the Total News Network format.

If you like news and opinions on news and politics, you are sure to love any, or all, of these networks. They don’t disappoint because their programming is continuous – always on – and they are able to cover “breaking stories” 24-hours a day, seven days a week, something the major networks can’t match. That means a story that unfolds at 3 A.M. will be covered by a Cable News Network reporter as it occurs. There has never been that kind of instant, on-the-spot coverage on news and events in history, certainly not in the earlier days of television.

But, this is the 21st Century. TV is better than ever before, thanks to the good work of programming providers. They provide a great service and I’m a fortunate beneficiary.

Author: Frank Bilotta

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