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The problem with much of the media today - globally - is not the amount of negative news (that's the nature of news); it's the amount of negative news that we can do relatively nothing about.
The centralising of news means we get limited news from our neighborhoods.
The centralising of news means we get limited news from our neighborhoods.
The laying off of journalists in anal towns and regions, and the further compression of news to fit TV, means we hear the absolute worst, with little in the way of options of what we can do to make things better.
The media, as the Fourth Estate, is meant to inform citizenry SO THAT THEY CAN, IN TURN, MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS.
The second, and more important, part is too often missing.
It leaves people perpetually frustrated and angry.
It undermines, rather than strengthens, democracy.
The second, and more important, part is too often missing.
It leaves people perpetually frustrated and angry.
It undermines, rather than strengthens, democracy.
Some problems are necessarily national or global in scale, but many are not.
We need to have an honest conversation about what the transformation of media into an emotional drug, entertainment largely, is doing to politics.
We need to have an honest conversation about what the transformation of media into an emotional drug, entertainment largely, is doing to politics.
