Investigating
A Changing Media Landscape in the Face of Media Illiteracy
A multimedia story by Aubree Wood
An Interview with Colorado Media Practitioner, Linda Shapley, discussing the new age of media illiteracy from a journalistic perspective.
Both the parking lots and the streets that I drove past to get to the warehouse, were empty.
Were the people in the cars I did pass still up from the night before? Or had they also woken up at the ungodly hour of 2 a.m. to start their day, alongside the newspaper delivery carriers.
As my car pulled into the Greeley Newspaper Distribution center at 2:54 a.m. I parked and waited for Shane Merrill to arrive. I greeted him with as much excitement as I could muster; my energy consistent with the amount of sleep I had gotten and the time of day. We entered through the loading dock and into the large warehouse holding all the papers needing distribution within the Northern Colorado area.
The warehouse was big, and grey. Individual stations, where each carrier wraps and bags their papers, lined the walls. In the corner, stood bins of past newspapers awaiting their fate to the paper shredder.
We were the only two in the warehouse at that hour. I asked Merrill when the other carriers would come in to begin their shift, “They already came in starting around 12-1 a.m.,” he told me in response....
