Monday, November 5, 2007

Research Paper Topic

Okay, so I forgot to post my theses last week, but I would still like some comments on them so:

I would like to write about the effect of entertainment industry on the news industry. I think that television programs and movies are catering to an audience with an ever-shrinking attention span, which has a negative effect on the quality of the news. The news has to adapt by becoming more interesting and appealing.

I would also like to include in this paper the fact that the news is greatly affected by consumers who supposedly can not pay attention for more than 10 seconds. I feel like I have to prove this for my paper, because otherwise the attention span of consumers would be meaningless.

1] Modern entertainment, specifically television programming, has decreased the attention span of consumers and, as a result, damaged the overall quality of the news.
2] As a result of a decrease in the quality of television programming as well news consumers having a greater effect on the news market, the quality of the news has significantly decreased.
3] The nature of modern television programming has transformed the nature of today's news and has negatively impacted the quality.

1 comment:

Ever More... said...

Thesis one is the best. I don't like 3 because it is very vague. Number two repeats itself. Number one is the best because It is specific, has the information you wanted to convey, and does not repeat itself. Even thesis three repeats itself, now that I look back at them. You really did not try to come up with two others, did you?