NOTÍCIAS ELECTRÓNICAS

Destaque habitual ao sábado para a coluna do físico Robert Park, desta vez sobre as notícias electrónicas:

"E-NEWS: IS IT NEWS, OR IS IT ENTERTAINMENT?

Print news seems headed for extinction, displaced by virtually instantaneous e-news. E-news comes to us from all over the world by way of satellite communications and is relayed by hundreds of TV channels, Google, Wikipedia, countless blogs, cell phones, smart phones, tweets, etc. Most of these sources don't even have an editor. Timely information is important, but some of it is simply wrong. Is this part of some sinister plan? There is no plan. Trust me, E-news sources simply evolve. It's remarkably similar to Darwinian evolution. Science creates mutations in the form of new communications devices, and the public does the "natural selection" by deciding which devices they prefer. The public, however, often prefers to be entertained rather than informed. Thus it is that the respected news industry is being subsumed within the entertainment industry. In the Age of Science more news time by far is devoted to celebrity gossip."

Robert Park