Media, Information and Technoculture 2153A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Inquisition, Alternative Media, Phenylalanine
10 Dec 2016
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So much of our news content are filtered through channels that also trade largely in products of the cultural industry. News starts to take on many of the attributes that characterize popular entertainment. Majority of youth do not tune into traditional newscasts. People resort to headlines on social media sites and online networks to obtain awareness about current world events. There tends to be, in the news industries, a sort of a crisis of identity and economics. They are suffering a lack of funding. Difficult for traditional news outlets to maintain identity amidst this evolution in news acquisition. Newscast series, such as the newsroom, tend to fictionalize real issues to bring light to certain points. Many are aware of the first, it is the widely held notion of the two. They argue the second is the predominant view of the select powerful.
