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I will be adding to the wikipedia article 'Journalism', under production the hamster wheel paradox and how it has impacted the quality and production of news papers. I have chosen the following authors to contribute to my article contribution:

Hardy, J. (2013). Digital Disconnect: how capitalism is turning the internet against democracy. Digital Journalism, 2(2), 247-249. doi:10.1080/21670811.2013.838412

Strakman, D. (n.d.). The Hamster Wheel. Retrieved April 19, 2017, from http://archives.cjr.org/cover_story/the_hamster_wheel.php

Bennett, W. L. (2011). News: the politics of illusion. Chicago: Pearson Education (US).

Alexander, J. C., Breese, E. B., & Luengo, M. (2016). The crisis of journalism reconsidered: democratic culture, professional codes, digital future. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hamster wheel paradox Draft

What drives the production of news content today versus what used to drive it has changed. The model that journalists work on now is a profit model vs a public model, and the hamster wheel explains that shorter content bits are what people want day-to-day basis.  The wheel runs on the theory that there is 'no rest in news production', people require news in small bits, the content doesn't have to be fact 'relevant' or even real so long as it is eye-catching and click-bait worthy. Journalist's have to compete and work faster to produce news if they want to earn their keep, it's a passive production. That's why it's so often seen they repetition of a trending or popular article featured in multiple news organizations.  It is thought of as a 'news cyclone', in a way that the regulation of the news has come to a standard that there is news being produced 24/7 and news organizations need to compete to get the attention of millions of online viewers, it is a race against time to meet deadlines, with mostly no particular 'objective news' being gathered or analyzed, mainly seeing at facilitating to the viewer's need for easy consumable news and the news organization profit model goals.