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What's Happened To The News

The news is a great media outlet, but is it well-rounded?

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The first form of news that was ever considered news was word of mouth and the newspaper. This was back before iPhones, computers, social media and televisions were even thought of being invented. One neighbor would tell another neighbor something relevant that was happening in their town that day, and when they read the paper they would be able to find out other current events happening in the world around them.

But, over the years, since the world has become more modern and developed technology, something about the news and the way it is presented to people has changed. Don’t get me wrong; when cell phones, computers, TVs and better printing presses were created, it became so much easier for people to be able to obtain information about things that were happening locally and anywhere else. Although, something does not seem completely the same as when we first developed all of this technology.

With the ever-gaining popularity of social media and TV shows that present and talk about things that are going on in the world, some of the news people see seems fabricated. The whole world is becoming scared of going places and doing things because of the bad things going on in the world (that the news presents to us). The issue I find is that, while these things are real and real problems are happening, it is all the news is focusing on. With the news focusing on all the negative things in the world, I don’t blame people for freaking out.

The point I am trying to get across is to not freak out. The modern news companies and media outlets seem to put all this focus on something in order to get a reaction and boost their ratings. The news they are presenting is real, but they are finding evidence and facts in order to make something seem dangerous too, say, someone in New York when something bad is happening in Los Angeles. It is all they’re focusing on when they could attempt to have a more balanced palette incorporating some of the good things that are happening also.

The world is becoming less peaceful than the previous decades, it seems. But the question is, was all this stuff happening to the same extent in past decades and we just didn’t have the technology to tell people about it? Or is the world actually as dangerous as the media and news present it to be?

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