A Different Kind of Hero

I found an interesting article, How Jobs Rescued Old Media, written by Jaime Weinman on Texas A&M's Library Database program. There a few processes to go through to discover if this article is a scholarly article worthy of a research paper. However, the database makes it pretty simple for students to know if it is scholarly, because it literally tells you if it is or not. This article happens to be scholarly, according to the database, but I figured I would do my own proving just to be safe. Peer reviewing is a big key to being scholarly, and this article is peer reviewed. Finally, the author is an editor for a big time magazine in Canada called Maclean's. The three of these reasons make this article scholarly with no doubt in my mind.

This article was very interesting to me, as an owner of many Apple products. The main point is that Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, actually helped the traditional media industry. This seems ironic, because it is a completely new industry that is very modern, but he helped save the industry from the actions of piracy going on about a year ago. He gave this world an inexpensive way to pay for a single song, instead of illegally downloading these songs. Jobs was very passionate about the music industry and hated to see it go downhill.

I believe this author has very accurately portrayed the events of iTunes and of Steve Jobs. The author does not use language that is too strongly persuasive and just sticks to the facts. He concludes that switching from a world of CD's filled with 12 songs to a world of "singles", that Apple and Steve Jobs have successfully kept music in people's lives.