The top stories for today reveal the real contrast between i report and the official CNN website. On CNN, the highlight is the economic crisis and congress and on i-report, the top story was about the new format of facebook. The stories on i-report are more trivial and superficial. The top daily stories on CNN included information from the campaign trail, world affairs and the war while i-report talks about gas prices in Atlanta and dogs. The user-based i-report is obviously not an official news source. The stories seen in i-report were also more locally based and focused on special interests. This sight seems to show how the definition of news is being revolutionized. What is news and what is newsworthy? It looks like anything is up for grabs here.
Look at these highlights from the facebook article:
Facebook's makeover is sparking an outcry among many of its 100 million users
Facebook unveiled its face-lift in July but forced users to new site only two weeks ago
One online petition against the new Facebook has more than 1.5 million names
Others praise the new site as being better organized, easier to navigate
When did a user-based website become worthy news? Is this the future of news? Many people seem more interested in trivial matters like this than cold, hard news.
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