Overtime, everything must evolve. From fashion trends, to the human understanding of the universe, the world is a never ending string of fluidly shifting events. Even the way information is created and consumed is relentlessly altering and adapting. In the digital age, journalist, the gatekeepers and protectors of public information, are hard to distinguish from the herds of bloggers, and the countless soap box preachers. Often, the lines between fact and opinion become so blurred, consumers accept misinformation or entertainment as fact. Worse yet, the confusion is often by design.
Fact or Fiction
Consider the information hosted on mass media websites such as social media giants Twitter and Facebook . Also, consider not only how many people use these aggregators of information, but the type of information being consumed. Increasingly, the format of entertainment publications, and the format of news sources, are blending together. Entertainment and opinion pieces are so cleverly crafted and presented as fact, the reader rarely even questions the content. It is the long term effects of this misinformation which is truly startling. With a little research and some cognitive thinking, it is disheartening to discover how social media is eroding away the fourth estate. …show more content…
While the printing press has not yet failed society, news papers, albeit scantily seen relics, are still a functioning mass media. However, newspapers across the nation are losing the battle, a battle of headlines, to social media. More and more, the social sphere is digesting various articles, regarding various subjects, which are linked to from various other places on the world wide