What are the important news stories everyone should be reading? How should we react to these news stories? What is the best way to receive our news? Can we trust new media sources? These are all questions brought up by the choices people have to make between new media and old media.

New media is more democratic than old media. It lets one decide which stories are important by checking out how many hits it gets, or how many times the story gets tweeted. Some web sites even take note of which articles are getting the most hits and will email that article out to pre-subscribers. This contrasts with old media, because in old media there is a small hierarchy of people as in any business who make the big decisions on what articles are the most important, and what ones they might not even choose to run. The reader in new media gets to view a lot of feedback on articles often located right below the article. This feed back offers the reader the opportunity to immediately view other readers' responses and it can influence the reader's own views on the article. In old media one is exposed to just the article, leaving it up to the reader to discuss it or not with family or friends.

One of the most pressing questions is whether or not the new media sources are trustworthy. The new media sources can definitely be more opinionated and sloppy, while the old media sources have a reputation to maintain so their news is generally required to be verified and checked for accuracy. Although the new media sources can be opinionated this just means you need to be aware of its bias and that you may need to read more than one article covering the story to get a balanced view. Whether or not you are a fan of the new media or old, they both have positives and negatives that can work to complement each other in the future.