I Hate The News Media
Sep. 14th, 2021 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
takethisforexampleMy Principles of Journalism course is insufferable. I am seriously astonished by the idiocy of my professor and classmates. I'm not usually one to put myself above others in academic settings but I am just blown away by the shallow contributions of the people in this specific course.
Just now, my class was asked about their vision for the future of journalism (as in what they want to see, not what they can easily predict). All of the people who answered wanted to see news media prevail on social apps like Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok, etc.. And as I type they are battling about which social app is the best for news.
How about none of them? Isn't that the obvious answer? Look, I can't completely discredit the unique media ecosystems of social media platforms, but anyone with a fleck of intelligence knows that the we live in an age of misinformation and commercial content. Many of the grudges I hold with liberalism and the trivial, self-gratifying beliefs of my generation are perpetuated and spread on these platforms. Social media has bred a generation of people who fail to challenge the validity of content they are consuming and adopt the most homogenized doctrines with an illusion of individual importance. They all want to die on Liberal Hill. Liberal Mount Olympus. There is a giant Tiktok orgy happening up there full of black squares and change.org petitions.
The future of journalism is obviously digital and the scape of news media is always becoming worse and worse. It’s a congealed sludge. Corruption, uniformity, commercialism, exploitation. Nothing can be trusted. Social media, on a political level, has stripped us of our ability to think critically, and it's so obvious and yet no one seems brave enough to dip their toes in the water and challenge what they know to be real or right. I am not one of them anymore, and university is making that painfully clear.
Why am I here? Why did I choose this major?
Just now, my class was asked about their vision for the future of journalism (as in what they want to see, not what they can easily predict). All of the people who answered wanted to see news media prevail on social apps like Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok, etc.. And as I type they are battling about which social app is the best for news.
How about none of them? Isn't that the obvious answer? Look, I can't completely discredit the unique media ecosystems of social media platforms, but anyone with a fleck of intelligence knows that the we live in an age of misinformation and commercial content. Many of the grudges I hold with liberalism and the trivial, self-gratifying beliefs of my generation are perpetuated and spread on these platforms. Social media has bred a generation of people who fail to challenge the validity of content they are consuming and adopt the most homogenized doctrines with an illusion of individual importance. They all want to die on Liberal Hill. Liberal Mount Olympus. There is a giant Tiktok orgy happening up there full of black squares and change.org petitions.
The future of journalism is obviously digital and the scape of news media is always becoming worse and worse. It’s a congealed sludge. Corruption, uniformity, commercialism, exploitation. Nothing can be trusted. Social media, on a political level, has stripped us of our ability to think critically, and it's so obvious and yet no one seems brave enough to dip their toes in the water and challenge what they know to be real or right. I am not one of them anymore, and university is making that painfully clear.
Why am I here? Why did I choose this major?
