It is
commonly known that media and its attitudes towards them have changed in the
last decades, but especially today, regarding the distrust of a high number of
people, a great crack in media landscape can be observed, causing struggle for,
e.g., the national newspapers in Britain. By contrast, the consumption of
emphatic, hyper-sensationalized media has risen, or at least, seems to grow to
a new extent.
It might
not seem very unlikely to suppose that traditional journalism, that is, journalism
of well-established newspaper, is faced with great problems, since it became so
easy to get only that sort of news which affect one the most. Research found
out, for example, that people in the U.S. who tend to be more conservative and
affectable for news about how dangerous refugees are, regarding to their facebook
accounts, are more confronted with this sort of news. It seems there is a great
divide between specified news one consumes via social media and news which show
are more differentiated image.
Conversely,
this problem holds the key to the survive of traditional journalism. The
contrasting aims of these different types of journalism, or more precisely,
sensational versus traditional, offer a large field for a traditional
journalism that deals with serious information which are, or seem to be, more
relevant for society, politics etc. It might be true that traditional
journalism must develop in the next years in some ways, for example,
transforming printed newspapers into digital. On the other hand, it is not
likely to assume that it will extinct because of some affection-catching
websites, and, in addition, it was the traditional newspapers like the Guardian
which uncovered the most echoing scandals in these days. Besides, it will be
interesting to see how traditional journalism will battle with the common-become
attacks on “the media”.
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