We are in a day and age that allows for instant news, gossip, and entertainment to be at your fingertips within a few clicks on an electronic device. Studies have also proven that the attention spans of modern day adults are shorter than our ancestors in generations before us. With this the media and entertainment industry has had to adapt to their style and technique of delivering their product to the consumer and maintain high ratings.

The new era of journalism is upon us with delivering minute-to-minute news by social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. I mean let’s be honest, who of you that wasn’t born before 1985 can honestly say they have a read an old fashioned newspaper on a regular basis lately? Now with the need to produce instant news 24/7, the media has lost some creditability in the minds of some because of its occasional slanderous, dishonest, and irrelevant pieces of information that they pass off as news. Which in turn has caused the typical American to be more intrigued about what the latest and greatest celebrity cheated on each other than news on our national security or economy. When it pertains to actual news they read the headline or a tweet on a specific topic and assume its true without actually fact checking. This is evident with the upcoming presidential elections in full swing and with debates on social issues like social equality between races and sexual orientation. It doesn’t help that everything is black and white, and no I’m not referring to the races. I’m referring to the fact that there is no grey area on an issue anymore, and anyone that try’s to stand in the middle is labeled worse than someone that doesn’t agree with the other side.

This is why the “silent majority” has risen again. They are tired of the political antics that just put neighbors pitted against each other, and why political candidates like Donald J. Trump, Dr. Ben Carson, and Bernie Sanders have gained so much support from all demographics. They represent people that are sick of the system and want to root out career politicians that don’t give a hoot about their constituents. The mainstream media loves to report on social issues, but then only represents one side of the issue. This type of journalism is creating a war between ethnicities, social classes, and men and women. Why cant they just report both sides fairly and allow the people to decide rather than influencing them to a particular side?

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Facebook should not be your only source of everyday news.

Facebook has turned into a transport for information to be spread at a cyclic rate and at a click of a button. But here’s the issue, only a small portion of those articles that pop up on your newsfeed “updating” you on the newest and greatest are representative of the whole story. Most the articles you see are like what you are currently reading, a perspective piece on an issue. Anybody with a large audience can spread information without actually fact checking or realizing the implications certain words have on communities or the people represented in the piece of work. The worse part is that readers that don’t actually care enough to fact check and then preach what they read in these pieces as gospel. There is a famous lesson that I try to teach my junior Marines in my team when we are on patrol; we collect information on designated areas and provide the baseline or trends, but we do not collect intelligence. Intelligence is information that was proven factual by higher and proven worthy of knowing for future operations. Point being, the news should give you the information so that you can form your own opinion based on what was given to you. Right now, its ass backwards and they formulate a idea for the viewers and the viewers just eat it up. Now i'll be the first to admit that this article is based on my opinion and shouldn’t be considered actual news. I will hopefully get to the point where I am writing news worthy articles, but I promise you will know the difference between the two.I also feel that it is great that we live in a country where everyone has the right to express themselves through writing or entertainment, but society has grown weak and has more of followers than individual leaders.

Sadly, our country has turned into the politically correct, cutthroat, double standard, black and white society. It has caused multiple issues to be put on the front page and is causing us to pick which side they are on. The media will have you believe that patriotism for our country is at an all time low and even racist. But I’m here to tell you that there is an re-awakening in this country and the media and career politicians aren’t going to like it. People are starting to discredit and see the idiotic behavior of a few and are tired of seeing the media and government praise their behavior. Just like the awakening that occurred with Ronald Reagan, war vets, blue collar workers, and low to middle class people are beginning to make their voices heard. They are making a stand against mainstream media and the movements that promote unjust relations between races, religions, social classes, and even cops that are working to protect their communities.

Now with this not being a smear piece on a certain candidate or an article calling for the firing of local cops doing their job protecting you, it probably wont get much attention. But hopefully to some of you it will serve as a sort of baseline that will allow you to make an effort to wake this country up again. The fight shouldn’t be against the cops, a different race than your own, or what political party you belong too… the cross hairs should be placed on the media and their ratings that is dividing this great nation.