Only-Online Journalism

Online journalism is a great means of distributing the news to a worldwide audience, on a constant time-frame. Anyone with computer could find out what is happening in the world at any given moment, and that accessibility is necessary for this ever growing and ever changing world. Another positve factor of online journalism is that it helps the environment, which is presently a big concern in the 2008 presidential election. However, despite the positives of online journalism, the idea of only-online journalism doesn't seem like a reliable media business, simply because there is no means of making money besides advertisements. It might be able to work in a small, moderatley wealthy suburb, where almost everyone has a computer, but the small town paper might not be able to have enough advertisements to pay the employees. I big city would most likely not have a problem with advertisements, but the news would not be fairly distributed, because of the large amount of people without computers. Cyberjournalist.net does a good job of laying the news right in front of you, but there are too many people out there without computers. Also, it doesnt seem like there are enough ads to make enough money to pay the writers. Even people in poverty need to read the news, and reporting the news is more about dispersing the facts to everyone than making money.