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 article.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/13/medias-moment-truth-who-are-gatekeepers-in-trump-era.html
interesting article. Ive personally always been skeptical of gatekeepers, i just feel like its so subject, that its very difficult for them to be objective and unbiased. Ive always thought of it that way. I guess am not the only one. But things have changed so much. The news is just not what it use to be. I guess gatekeeping was bound to change too
ReplyDeleteWhat a great article, especially highlighting important things and the fact that we can no longer depend on certain forms of communication isn't reliable is so upsetting. Many people have changed their way of receiving their news and replaced it completely with social media and that's where a huge problems plays into role. I'm not surprised the gate keeping has changed as well. It was bound to happen.
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