Differences in the News

@JacobCWalton
How news is presented may at first appear to be the same as it always is. A person appears on your television screen and tells you about things that are happening. However, there is a clear set of differences between how this was done in 1990 and in 2008. In the former time, when an anchor was talking, it was just them talking. In comparison, in 2008, the screen is cluttered up with video, bulletins, and occasionally shortened versions of what the anchor just said in text form. A lot of media is used in a small space to convey the same piece of information. In 1990, there was one person on screen at a time, but in 2008, there can be as many as four. If the discussion is political, there will often be representatives of the parties, who will shout at each other from their boxes.
However, it’s still the news. The representation of one medium in another (Remediation 78) is clear, the old news peeking out from the new.