Killing Flies With a Shotgun: How the Internet Set a New Journalistic Standard and Style
type: CreativeWork
description: Today, both the way a story is told and how long the viewer's attention can be held are often as important as the story itself. This study shows how online media sets new standards for narrative and continues some print traditions. This study focuses on the dialogue between print and online media. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of this dialogue through story length, readability, shovelware and story packaging shows the numerous effects the Internet has had on news media content.
abstract: Today, both the way a story is told and how long the viewer's attention can be held are often as important as the story itself. This study shows how online media sets new standards for narrative and continues some print traditions. This study focuses on the dialogue between print and online media. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of this dialogue through story length, readability, shovelware and story packaging shows the numerous effects the Internet has had on news media content.
author: Maher, Kelly M.
language: English
keywords: Electronic newspapers., Mass media -- Technological innovations., dialogue, Internet, media history, print traditions, online media
identifier: oclc: 49930729
identifier: untcat: b2374749
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metadc2624
date published: 2000-08
date modified: 2026-07-24T05:34:52Z
provider: University of North Texas
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of North Texas

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property ID: DOI
value: 10.12794/metadc2624