With the decline in newspaper sales in current times, newspaper companies are seeking to gain more revenue from their still popular online news sites. Currently, most of the companies revenue from online news comes from advertising. Currently, most news sites have left the news sites free of charge to the viewer.
However, according to an AFP article on breitbart.com, many news company leaders gathering at the Bloomberg Businessweek Media Summit are discussing changing the norms of online news sites. Organizations such as the New York Times and others are now considering requiring viewers to pay for certain content. Currently, the New York Times is not planning to make viewerspay for all of their news, they plan for people to pay for localized and specific news. Some critics blame news organizations for not requiring payed content earlier. They claim that by not requiring payment earlier, viewers have come to expect free news. Others argue that requiring paid news now would be the end for the news corporations, because people would just turn to alternate news sources.
Whether or not news sites require payment is still up in the air. Few corporations have tried it and they have lost many many viewers. So, while the News corporations have the right to charge for their news, it might not be the best way to increase revenues or viewership.
In mostly love and a little peace,
Blogdor the Dragon
original article: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.8183c890097b4de5bad3e2314bcad683.a1&show_article=1
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Do Violent Video Games Make Kids More Aggressive?
Yes, indeed violent video games do make more careless and aggressive kids. It was always a rumor that video games were bad for you, but i know i never took it too seriously, and kept playing. I'm sure many others did as well. But Craig Anderson, the Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University, said "We can now say with utmost confidence that…exposure to violent video games increases the likelihood of aggressive behavior in both short-term and long-term contexts. Such exposure also increases aggressive thinking and decreases pro-social behavior." So, regardless of culture, age, or gender, kids are constantly being affected, whether at school, in sports, or even on the couch. In March of 2010, the Psychological Bulletin reported that video games had a long term risk factor with thoughts and behavior. Video games are affecting our youth in more ways then we hoped.
With television and video games being the main sources of entertainment for our young, we should regulate what they do and watch. With regulators of television seeking all the programming they can contract, video games are being exploited to our young. With our youth being attracted to these commercials, sometimes it is inevitable that they find a place to play the most popular video games. Madden, a football game, is simulated to be like a real football game. I don't think Madden is as big of a deal as Modern Warfare, and you can tell what that involves just by the name. Now, I'm not saying there's a line that is crossed when playing video games. Obviously, an hour here or there isn't going to "kill" you, depending on your maturity. But for the couch potatoes who play for hours upon hours, those are the kids I'm worried about. So, no matter how big or small something is, like video games, our youth always has a chance to be affected.
In fifty years, who will be running the country? Our youth. This is the reason i find this blog to be important. I don't like that we have all this technology at our finger tips and our youth can access anything they want, not realizing the harm it can do them. They have no idea these video games can change their behavior, but they play for hours upon hours. It may not change their entire personality, but it does have the possibility to. How would I feel if i knew someone in the future with a major responsibility was affected as a child due to video games? I wouldn't be too thrilled about it, and i know others would not as well. Should we try and regulate our children knowing there can be affects? Or let them adventure off into the world of video games?
With television and video games being the main sources of entertainment for our young, we should regulate what they do and watch. With regulators of television seeking all the programming they can contract, video games are being exploited to our young. With our youth being attracted to these commercials, sometimes it is inevitable that they find a place to play the most popular video games. Madden, a football game, is simulated to be like a real football game. I don't think Madden is as big of a deal as Modern Warfare, and you can tell what that involves just by the name. Now, I'm not saying there's a line that is crossed when playing video games. Obviously, an hour here or there isn't going to "kill" you, depending on your maturity. But for the couch potatoes who play for hours upon hours, those are the kids I'm worried about. So, no matter how big or small something is, like video games, our youth always has a chance to be affected.
In fifty years, who will be running the country? Our youth. This is the reason i find this blog to be important. I don't like that we have all this technology at our finger tips and our youth can access anything they want, not realizing the harm it can do them. They have no idea these video games can change their behavior, but they play for hours upon hours. It may not change their entire personality, but it does have the possibility to. How would I feel if i knew someone in the future with a major responsibility was affected as a child due to video games? I wouldn't be too thrilled about it, and i know others would not as well. Should we try and regulate our children knowing there can be affects? Or let them adventure off into the world of video games?
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