I’d say that it’s not the media’s job to inform us anymore, it’s more to influence us and keep us docile. There are some small publications who still stick to informing people and telling the truth as objectively as they can but those are becoming fewer and fewer.
It sucks that it is this way but in a society where aunt Jo on Facebook can have a bigger audience spouting her nonsense then the local newspaper it is the way it is.
I think what I hold issue with is the assumption that Aunt Jo getting a larger audience because her audience are idiots, and not because Aunt Jo’s message is being artificially inflated by large corps trying to keep real news down
I’d say that it’s not the media’s job to inform us anymore, it’s more to influence us and keep us docile. There are some small publications who still stick to informing people and telling the truth as objectively as they can but those are becoming fewer and fewer.
It sucks that it is this way but in a society where aunt Jo on Facebook can have a bigger audience spouting her nonsense then the local newspaper it is the way it is.
I think what I hold issue with is the assumption that Aunt Jo getting a larger audience because her audience are idiots, and not because Aunt Jo’s message is being artificially inflated by large corps trying to keep real news down