The Future of News

The way people have been getting news has evolved over the past couple of years so quickly many are questioning what the future of news will be like. Technology has played a leading role in not only the way we, the audience, receive the news, but also the way the media is transmitting it from the source to the consumers.

Everyday younger generations are surrounded by screens everywhere, whether they are tablets, TV’s, mobile telephones or computers. What this means for news is the channels by which people are receiving and sending information is online, so naturally the trend is to follow where everyone’s eyes are looking. The Internet is so vast and accessible it is where more and more people go to get their fix of sports, weather, top stories, and latest viral videos. Technology is constantly advancing and changing how and where we get news, but the Internet is the main hub where it is all available (http://tinyurl.com/cf2rbk). 

Although, all of this change makes life easier and supposedly saves time in the long run, it is not completely the most reliable source. The Internet can and does lie to us all the time. We have discovered, with these technological advances, how easy it is to manipulate information, pictures and videos on our very own computers at home and upload them to the Internet and cause mass confusion. Some examples include the 9/11 picture that was taken from the observation deck on one of the WTC towers with a plane in the background or a website dedicated completely to satire news (http://www.theonion.com/). I agree, some of it is funny, but other sites are simply misleading and fake with the sole purpose of getting the wrong kind of attention. That is why we have to be on constant guard, because the next email you get about some breaking news story could just be another hoax.

In this modern day, with all of the technology we sit behind, we are not only consumers anymore, but producers as well (http://tinyurl.com/4y9q865). Blogs, videos, stories on social media sites have allowed us to share our own stories and become journalists with a little “j.” We are now able to contribute to our communities and surrounding world the things we have lived through. We are the news, so why not be contributors.