Over the past few years, our society’s outlook on the news has significantly changed. This is apparent through the sale drops of many leading news sources such as USA today, San Francisco Chronicles, and Miami Herald. But what has caused a downfall to these companies that used to rack in millions of dollars? Could it be our recession or maybe that many of us want to go eco and stop cutting trees down? Or could it be the possibility that we simply don’t care about the news anymore.
The average American spends forty five reading the New York Times. However, when reading the New York Times online the average reader spends only a mere seven minutes. Seven minutes is barely anytime at all when it comes to reading. I do believe that this shows how our society views news. We view news as if it is something that we pick and choose to read, not getting the full thing but instead getting only either the headlines or sports. But does this really have a significant role in the downfall of the news industry?
The news industry has fallen because our apathy towards real news, such as what is going on in other countries or towards the articles that make we as readers think further and past the print. Our society wants blips of news here and there and we want our entertainment. We now no longer have any desire to read long dragged out articles on healthcare but instead we want the abridged version. With this attitude, much of our news will turn to rubbish (in my opinion).
The worst part about all of this is probably how it has affected journalist around the world. Since our news is being controlled by the corporations that only care to make money (nothing wrong with being a company like this I’m just stating the fact), we no longer get news that might not be so popular but still very important (an example of this would be how there has been no publicity of water powered cars). Either way our view on the news drastically affects many people.
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