Chris Hedges article states that the Internet is strangling the progression and the importance of the newspapers we once cherished as a valuable news source. Journalists have lost jobs, news pages have been cut back and their stocks have also lost influence and decreased substantially. Newspapers have always had the reputation as a trustful source of current events (he actually refers to them as being a public trust). The recent filtering of information through the Internet defies the purpose of reporting. And if the news organization deteriorates then the American public will lose a vast majority of expertise and information.

There is a definite validity with this article because the Internet clutters the minds of millions of people. People no longer watch the news or read newspapers. Their main source for updates and current events has become the Internet. The newspaper was the original source for information and it was always a trustworthy form of text. Now we’ve lost that purity, per se, and we rely on Internet articles that possess unknown validity. Hedges makes it clear that if we lose these old forms of reporting the common person will be deprived of expertise and information.

Nicholas Carr’s article argues that the Internet as well as text messages have provided more reading material for the masses but this reading is much different. Our ability to interpret text and make connections to the material has been disengaged because of these new sources. Carr states that never has there been a communications system that has played such an important role in the lives of the public before. The influence the Internet has on our lives in remarkable but yet it’s not a positive influence. Google hasn’t helped this current issue because its main goal is to build artificial intelligence.

The Internet has definitely not a valid source for building knowledge because it possesses an abundance of articles that only clutter our brains. I don’t feel that it is very useful even though there are many valid sources that one can find. With exception to these valid sources, the other half of information posted is a bunch of useless information. We have lost the ability to interpret texts and experts say that, “we’re more decoders of information,” now then ever before. The connections to writing are long gone and you can blame the Internet as well as Google.