The newspaper industry is suffering severely and this week we were given many accounts of how corrupt media really is. Things that should be reported are barely given any attention and things that often times do not matter are the headlines. We see this all the time in news outlets and we all would be lying if we don’t admit it. The regular things we do is always breaking news when a celebrity or someone with higher status does it. This is taking away from real ongoing issues and things actually worthy of being on the headline of the news.
There was an article that we had to look at that went into depth on how a longtime NBC reporter left the company because they were so focused on reporting on Trump they were missing things that actually deserved public attention. This individual was with NBC for 30 years so this just goes to show how corrupt the news really is. Someone is willing to leave their long time job it speaks for itself. He describe this issue as being a “Prisoner of Donald Trump.” how the NBC network is so quick to report anything in regards to Donald Trump and back him up. The analyst William Arkin wrote to the company a letter that he was leaving the company and is done with mainstream networks in all. He also explains how it was disheartening to see real important issues be ignored particularly global security problems by this major news sources. NBC, CNN, and Fox were all labeled as corrupt by Arkin an inside worker for mainstream media and I do not think anyone would walk away from 30 years of a job they have been doing for a lie.
Another article we had to look at spoke about how the age of newspapers are gone and it is now an era of corruption. The first sentence of the article is “We take newspapers for granted.” and I do feel this statement is true. I am not going to sit here and say I read the newspaper and am such a big fan of them because I am not. I learn all of my news off of my phone and the only time I might see something new is in a magazine in the store. The newspaper does report more things that we are missing and I can admit I am blind to other news because my primary source of news is my phone. Newspapers are now shrinking in pages and this just start to the what I see as the extinction of newspapers. This could be beneficial to companies making this gift to online, but not for us. Mainstream networks will just give us corrupt news and not real issues. So with newspapers slowly fading we should fear our source of real issues will too.
There was one more thing that out of the many things we had among us that struck me and it was a video with John Oliver talking about this corruption. He goes in on how the major source for all these websites and other news outlets online are newspapers and with newspapers going out of business what is in store for the future of news. Journalism is losing its importance and real journalist like Arkin and Oliver are trying to open our eyes to what we are heading into. They definitely opened mine and I saw a comment on the video that was very true and it was “Our world needs Clark Kent a lot more than Superman.” Do you agree with the statement? And whatever you choose what is the reasoning?
The weekly news article I chose is about an ex star receiver Dez Bryant getting his well deserved second chance in the NFL with a big Super Bowl favorite the Baltimore Ravens.
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That is an interesting comment you found on the John Oliver YouTube video. I do agree with the statement for the most part. We need more journalist to write about important information that maybe a lot of people are not looking for but its something to need to hear or at least that its happening. In recent years its all about getting clicks on your articles and sometimes actual news isn’t going to get you as many clicks but is need for the public to see. A lot of people are more interested in what there favorite celebrity is doing then what’s happening over seas. So I think as people we have to change what we find interesting to then get journalism to change because they still have to find ways to make money and reporting on things that might not be as important in the big picture has been the way to do it.
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This was a very well written blog I thought you brought up many good points. Like its crazy to think that media will worry about little things instead of the big things. Like I feel like at least three times a week theres something in the news about Trump and most of the time its nothing significant happening. It just shows the priorities of these news stations being based more on news thats not as important.
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I think that this is the problem that we are seeing in the media today-everyone is trying to be the well known Superman while they forget the importance of the underrated Kent. The news is more interested in getting the hottest story rather than reporting what it’s important that the public hears. I like the way the person that wrote that comment was thinking because I think it applies to a lot of things in our day and age.
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I like this post and I do believe you are right to say that the industry has lost its way. It has not been able to adapt so much to the climate and perhaps it’s not entirely their fault. It is a shame though that now journalist have to rely on tricking the people for clicks rather than doing some reporting worth doing. Their objectives have changed and its just them trying to survive. I hope the industry doesn’t fall apart because thats majorly where we get the news from. Even the news stations rely heavily on newspapers reporting.
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