Paradigm Repair and Changing Journalistic Perceptions of the Internet as an Objective News Source

The purpose of this study was to evaluate how journalists have perceived internet 'news content' in the past decade through the lens of paradigm repair. An examination of representative anecdotes sought to shed light on journalistic reluctance to accept internet news content as 'objective' as compared to traditional media news content. This study concludes that concerted effort by journalists to repair the dominant news paradigm against incursion by the internet, while stronger a decade ago, has weakened over time.