with great power comes great responsibility
One of the most critical impacts of the digital age is how much closer the world has become due to it. Because of the Internet, we now have access to any country, any information, etc. that we could ever wish to have, all at the touch of a button. And while this age of breaking news is necessary because it keeps everyone informed at all times, it has also successfully made us lazy.
While this generalization doesn’t speak for everyone, there have been several criticisms of how news is delivered to us. Newspapers give some the false hope of the entire picture – leaving the audience to believe that no further research on a topic is necessary because news sources have done it for them. This is untrue. While most news stories are based on facts, it is crucial for readers to couple their own research with current news stories to get the whole picture, something that is much easier with the Internet at most of our fingertips. In fact, one of the reasons that “fake news” stories get so much coverage is because of a lack of research coupled with the topic. If people researched the headlines they came across, they’d realize the difference.
The spread of breaking news has also forced journalists around to condense big new stories into bite-sized chunks for readers. Because of the small attention span of most readers due to the Internet, news sources everywhere have been forced to become innovative in how they deliver news to keep the attention of readers.
The Internet and breaking news are not to blame for these problems; the methods in which we receive news or use the Internet should be evaluated and changed.
https://hbr.org/2017/01/the-u-s-medias-problems-are-much-bigger-than-fake-news-and-filter-bubbles
https://www.apa.org/news/apa/2020/02/fake-news
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