Are you sick of watching the same old, boring news? The news that only covers a certain amount of stories and is packed out with opinions as if you couldn't judge the current issue yourself. Well Mike Elgan is pretty sick of this news as well and he wrote a great article educating people on what the news does wrong and how it should be revolutionized. The article is titled Why Social Media is Killing(Bad) TV News and you can find it here http://www.internetnews.com/commentary/article.php/3803556/Why+Social+Media+is+Killing+Bad+TV+News.htm .Elgan discussed how the news only illuminates a few stories a night. But what is so bad about this is that these stories are usually propagated to "advance the careers of the people running the network at the expense of the public interest." It is not fair on the public part to sit around and see stories that only pertain to one type of class, obviously the upper, typically white, class. Elgan is also sick of listening to opinionated news anchors, such as Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Jim Cafferty, Keith Olbermann, Rachael Maddow. He says that the News media would be better off if all these people were fired. If the news covered about 20 news stories instead of just four, the news would not be so biased to a particular class interest as well. All in all, this article was hostile towards the present news media because of poor social attributes it picks up along the way.
This article was very interesting because it dealt with a lot of crucial elements that need to be dealt with. Like is it really necessary that we have opinionated news anchors. The news should inform us, educate us, so that we can make out own judgments on the situation. When news anchors present their opinions it becomes almost entertainment and belittles the American people's intelligence. But what is more fascinating is how the news acts as the people’s only source of news. People should in no way rely simply on TV news for their interests. Why? Because it is far to left or right? They act like answers to the world are either right or wrong, when in reality there is a whole array of possible answers and solutions and interests and opinions. It's not just what the News anchors say. When the News acts like it is the only power in play, they make it seem like it is normal, it is morally upstanding, it is American to believe what they say.
I think that people should fight this normalization of the news media. They shouldn’t just sit around their world be normalized to a certain upstanding standard. They should think of other solutions than what the news media offers and they should be active. That means turning off the TV and starting revolution. EAT YOUR TV.
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