This just in, the news will continue to grow more and more
opinionated and less about the actual news it is supposed to be reporting in
the first place. Throughout all of the years that I’ve watched the news, in
both the forms of television and YouTube, I have noticed a decrease in both
news and the credibility of those giving it. Although the vloggers, video
bloggers, I watch on YouTube are, in my opinion, more credible than the actual
news casters, even they have their own opinions on what they are broadcasting.
This new opinionated based news broadcasting is what brings down the
credibility and the reliability to tell the nation what is happening in other
countries.
It’s always
frustrating to me to have conversations with people who watch the news. With
the new ways of getting the news are growing more and more popular, the news
media had a bigger competitor to deal with in order to keep their own stations
maintained. A lot of the media show that has slowly been growing for years has
increased over the past few years to a circus of sorts. They all have been
turned into segmented sections to try and hold the attention of the new instant
gratification generation. However, this switch has seriously lessened the
amount of news that we are subjected too. I pride myself on finding out
information and being as knowledgeable on a subject as I can, so when I talk to
others who rely solely on the mainstream media for their news it’s often
frustrating to get them to understand almost everything that has been fed to them
is unreliable and biased. That is not to say that my sources aren’t also
biased, I, like many, many others who get their information online get it from
more than one source and piece together what we can to understand the fullest
back story behind the story.
This new
way of the news being broadcast is not only annoying bur severely damages how
we, as Americans view the outside world. We are so focused on our own news and
the skateboarding dog that we sometimes have trouble remembering that there are
other countries out there which demand our attention and deserve our sympathy.
Many of us stay in a blissful ignorance and ignore the outside world. Many
people feel more peace in ignoring what is happening to continue to watch their
skateboarding dog rather than fully understand the world and everything that is
happening in it. These people only further perpetuate the stereotype that the
media has it write by feeding us this fluffy and useless information instead of
just the straight, cold, hard facts.
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