Cut to the 1990s when the media ecology changed drastically with the advent of the World Wide Web Th...........

English ( Master) Paragraph Completion

Cut to the 1990s, when the media ecology changed drastically with the advent of the World Wide Web. The generation and distribution of news and opinion was no longer a linear process but networked. _____________________________. It was felt that the rise of the Internet had given way to the decline of the newspaper but that theory was soon debunked, and between 2000 and 2009, newspapers began setting up the online versions of their printed publications; this became a time of consolidation for the news media online as people would visit the websites of trusted publications for news.

The presumption in this model was that media organisations were driven by responsibility to the public while the audience was politically engaged, rational and discerning.

This was a medium that was democratic, accessible to all and a place where multiple conversations could take place.

The Digital News Report 2016 by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism found that 51% of their sample use social media as a source of news.

At least 78% of the Internet population aged 16-64 is now networking via a mobile.

Two things have disrupted the way in which people access information, and therefore the practice of journalism itself — social media and the mobile phone.

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Explanation:

Correct Answer is (b).The sentences preceding as well as following the blank affirm how the advent of Internet has impacted the ways news is delivered to the masses. Clearly, the sentence for the blank must express the same idea.
The keyword ‘networked’ in the preceding statement clearly indicates the statement B to be the following statement as statement B describes how this medium (internet) was a place where multiple conversations could take place.
None of the other statements seems to fitting the gap appropriately.
Option B is hence the correct answer.