Blog 4

Blog 4 is news really news

New media is a constantly growing and unpredictable entity that can be controlled or manipulated by others. The dangers of this entity that we call social media or unreliable media is taking over the web like a virus and who is to blame? We are for either spreading lies or misleading others so we can gain some kind of compensation. So to me the biggest danger of new media is the loss of actual relevant news.

People are taking less of an interest in real news and are focusing on bloggers, twitter, Facebook and reality TV and the information they are receiving isn’t really news worthy or true. With new technology media has become easily accessible and certain types are dying out such as actual newspapers, so now these old forms of media have to give the people what they want instead of the actual news.  According to the website Freepress in its article “Give the People What They Want”. “We can point to cable news channels that spew an endless stream of celebrity gossip, talking head pundits and sensationalism. And we can point to newspapers that are gutting local political and issue coverage and replacing it with generic wire reports and lifestyle articles.” It seems to me that all that anyone is interested in is gossip about other people’s lives. Now this could be to help escape the reality of their miserable lives or they could just feed off deception and betrayal. One good example is the reality TV show Keeping up with the Kardashians, According to Radar online, “In summer 2012, the family signed a deal for $30 million to star in three more seasons of E!’s Keeping Up With According to Forbes, Kim Kardashian is the highest-paid woman in reality TV, earning $18 million a year—but most of that is from endorsement deals and NOT the family reality shows!”. This has to be one of our biggest problems with new media people are losing focus on real life this is causing people to be less and less interested in actual news and what’s going on in the world.

            People are so distracted with TV shows and celebrity gossip that they fail to show interest in actual news and companies see this and in order to stay out of the red, they have to appeal to our interests like celebrity news, fashion, and other unimportant things.  Soon when things start happening around the world that affects our day-to-day lives and people will look back and say, “I should have paid more attention to actual news.” Now is there any way that this can be fix? Can we get people interested in the actual news worthy material sadly I don’t think so, as long as TV  and social media sites provide the illusion of escape then there can be no change.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bibliography

 

"They Make How Much?! The 23 Highest-Paid Reality TV Stars." Radar Online. N.p., n.d. Web.

 

"Give The People What They Want." Free Press. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Apr. 2014.