Throughout the 20th and 21st century specifically, there has gradually been a historic rise in technology that has shaped the world significantly. With the boom in technology, people were excited to have it be used in media platforms and help make them better and more accessible to the people. As years passed and media grew more and more, the people’s interest and trust in the media began to decrease.
In 2020, trust in American mass media is hitting its all-time lows and losing their credibility as the days pass. I feel that a main reason for people losing interest or trust in the media is because they feel like the accuracy of the news has diminished. I believe that politics has had a huge negative impact on mass media. While coverage has become extremely advanced, especially in America, it has become too focused on in the media. Many politicians do not tell the truth or especially in today’s world act childish and immature. This gives the media a bad reputation when they are constantly covering it in such detail and viewers are constantly lied to.
Another reason could also be because of the excess of technology platforms that people are so easily accessible to now. There are all different new sources whether they be professional well-known ones or platforms off of #snapchat, #instagram, #twitter, and more broadcasting news with no real credibility most of the time. I also feel the public people are too powerful on social media and have their own outlets where they are extremely opinionated.
In order to reverse this trend, I feel like there should not be as many platforms with all different information. I also feel like the coverage on politics is too much. I understand politics are important, but the immature battles between conservative and liberal sources bending the truth in news has become way too much for me to handle and clearly the public has not reacted to it well either. One way or another, media has declined in its popularity and credibility.
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