A sphere is 3 dimensional. That's just a press circle

What could possibly have been going through your head Mr. Jarvis when you decided to draw these diagrams? The press sphere? Go back to your finger-painting class with Lilly and Todd from the first grade. From this article, my best guess of what you mean by this “press sphere” is the way in which we are receiving our news nowadays. As in the way we intercept our news through interactions with many sources.

Now for the easy part, what was confusing to me? For starters, the press sphere. Clearly the press is at the center of it, but does the press get all of its information from the circles surrounding it? And what about us? Where does the news get forwarded onto us like in the original diagram? The diagram at the top that goes The World à The Press à Us seems to be working fine for me. Sure you could add some extra arrows now that social networks have exploded into our lives but I’m a simple man who enjoys reading what the press/new tells us. In his closing statement Jarvis makes it seem like the press is dying. I couldn’t disagree more with him, I think the press is just having more added to it.

My personal experience with the news is that I get it from the press (NY Times, Yahoo, or whatever source it doesn’t really matter). I may stop and talk to a friend about the news in passing, but I don’t usually believe them enough to take their word for it. When I have a minute, I’ll go and check what we talked about. If they’re right I’ll usually pick up additional information about it and if they’re wrong then I’ll just correct whatever crap they just told me (my friends in high school were not very informed by the news).