%% Contemporary Issues in the Media %%
What does the splintering of our news sources mean?
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Humanities
Cegep/2
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96 words
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1 minute
- Death of newspaper
- Causes:
- Slower and less convenient than the Internet
- Newspapers making their product smaller and less interesting
- Consequences:
- No one to research and verify the information
- Fracturing of news sources, polarization, loss of agreed-upon set of facts
- No one to keep the oppressed safe from injustice
- Causes:
- The Huffington Post
- Bloggers work for free to be put beside celebrities
- => devaluation of journalistic work
Ajitani Hifumi