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Welcome to my blog about politics and mass media! I will be focusing my posts on gatekeepers and how they affect what we as the public view in terms of politics; and why it's important in regards to what they show us.
Gatekeepers and Trust
When there was only radio, print, and television to share news gatekeepers were respected and their word was typically taken with less skepticism than it is now. Today with the web and social media have changed how people handle and trust the gatekeepers. Put plainly there is almost no trust when it comes to the public and gatekeepers. This makes it harder for the public to try and decipher fact from fiction when they are reading a news story. In a particular news article I found from FOX, they reported on gatekeeping and how it has changed. They suggest that in the past people would focus on one or two news stations that they believed were corrupt, however most people today will just say that media as a whole is corrupt. Even this news article itself is filled with bias and in some ways people would say corrupt. The truth of the matter is that people are becoming more and more distrustful of media and the gatekeepers that hold the power. Below I have attached a link to the news
This is important but in addition to that I think it's more important for the individuals to always be looking for this information and now wait for it to fall into our laps like a farm animal and a feeding troth.
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