An article related to the topic of “media responsibility”:
Drive by Media « The Air Vent
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Well we might as well jump right in. Whether you like him or hate him Rush Limbaugh’s catch phrase for todays media is pretty accurate. What it is doing to the general discourse in our culture is without a doubt disastrous.
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If you have ever done a news search on a subject in Google news you know what I’m talking about. Hundreds to thousands of articles by different publications with the same information and opinions and often times the same exact wording. There is nothing explicitly wrong or immoral to this type of news, it lowers the cost for getting a story and adds a lot of content to small news organizations, but it certainly lowers the quality of the information on a subject while giving the appearance of consensus.
Everything we do has consequences though, except maybe blogging to no one. There is a significant problem with this mode of mass information dissemination. When someone becomes interested enough in a subject to look for information, they often will run into dozens of articles with slightly different wording and different author’s names at the top all regurgitating the same three facts as the original article they were copied from…
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