The short film Journalism takes viewers into a newsroom of the 1940s. It explains the jobs that had to be done in order to produce the newspaper. Reporters are sent out to hotspots in town looking for stories. There are a few places they visit everyday, for example the police station or city hall. They return back to the newsroom, where the articles are printed in the newspaper. Within the newsroom, they are different departments that report different news. Overall, the production of a newspaper is seen to be a structured system and process in order to receive the news that is important to readers.
This film demonstrates many important points about our information society that are timeless. The newspaper presents a perfect example of an information society because it streamlines many informations that are important to society. Examples of things that the newspaper reports on are politics, crime reports, financial updates, and more. This presents why modern students can learn from this film. All of these subjects are still important to our society today and people still rely on information from these topics everyday. No matter the time period, society still searches for ways to present information to others. It has not always been easy and it continues to develop. While in 1941 many people relied on the paper, today most can access the same information through smartphone notification or Facebook status update. This leaves us to question what resources will come available as the information society continues to produce more means of communication. In just a short century, our society has gone from relying on only one or two sources for information to having over a dozen ways to access information. This can only leave one to critically analyze and wonder what more there will be in the years to come.
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