One may say how has social media affected the news industry? Well think back to recent elections or information on wars where did you receive a lot of your news? Many would say social media outlets like Twitter or Facebook. Although individuals are still receiving some of their news from TV news many are now putting down the newspapers, and either going to the television or the computer for their information. Newspaper sales began to decline in the year 1990. And newspapers in the country have encountered a steady decline of 1 percent each year. …show more content…
Quite often it is now seen that individuals are attacking news media, and framing them as the enemy. Social media seems more trustworthy to many people because of the false sense of connection one feels with their communities. Social media has impacted and reshaped news media as a whole. It is reported that out of the 64 percent of Americans that use Facebook 34 percent of them use the site to receive their news. How does a site that initial purpose was to connect people, and for extracurricular usage ends up being many individuals means of news information? Not to mention video social media sites such as, YouTube which accounts for 10 percent of