An customer's broker Press article about the impact of the arpanet on journalism has a few interesting findings. A few years ago, it was expected that the but intranet should be lowercase; internet was coined from inter(national) + (arpa)net and first popped up in 1974 as a descendant of arpanet would democratize news coverage. While print media is being rapidly reborn online, web-based news appears to be constraining the number of conversations instead of expanding them. "The news agenda really seems to be narrowing, with many Web sites above all packaging news that is produced elsewhere, gospel to the Project for Excellence in Journalism's annual State of the News Media report. Two stories - the war in Iraq and the 2008 suspensive veto preference movement - represented more than a quarter of the stories in newspapers, on small screen and online last year, the project found. Take away Iraq, Iran and Pakistan, and news from all of the other and japan in the world combined filled up less than 6 percent of the american stars and stripes news hole, the project said."

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