Effects Of Information News On American Culture

Effects of Information News on American Culture

Robert C. Reed

HUM/186

August 7, 2017

Allyson Wells

Effects of Information News on American Culture

Communication with the news media is the normal way to get ideas and our questions answered so that we as interested audiences will receive the facts of a given circumstance or situation. Perhaps our culture has advanced so rapidly that we have forgotten how to separate the facts from someone’s opinion. American culture has relied on the news from different sources and has gotten these news reports whenever we desire. When we speak of a culture change, we are sometimes talking about the evolution of a civilization. The American society is always trying to get more information no matter

The responsibility of the media to ensure its social ethics are followed comes to the regulations and rules set down by the organization itself. These rules are for all the company staff to adhere to; however, the editor may have a narrow view of some of its regulations when it comes to certain stories that may appeal to the audience and get more circulation for the organization. The culture of a nation may have many kinds of products which include video games, movies online, Fashion, and even technological advances, which influence the cultural changes. The rapid change for reporting the news has become an Internet and social media advantage. There are some issues with the accuracy of these news reports because the information being given may not have had efficient time to be sufficiently investigated. Therefore, the report will be presented without adequate investigation and has little opportunity to be addressed in an ethical manner. Most ethical matters in reporting the news have been left to the reporter doing a story to determine its ethnicity. Mass media has changed the culture where the broadcast of many of its reports has little ethnic

News stories attempt to give reporting in a fair and unbiased fashion, however, as humans, even the reporters have opinions and preferences. Media news had remained the same way until the events of September 11, 2001, when the culture of the nation changed. Journalists had for the most part been considering themselves as someone who observes and records events from a distance with objectivity. However, some people had the view that reporters were unable to report stories impartially and unattached. When reporters began to promote another form of reporting that was a more precise form of journalism, which was a more scientific method that included polls, questionnaires, and surveys; critics claimed that this was too reliant on polls to present substantial stories. The modern presidential campaign—including that of 2012—too many newspapers and TV stations became overly reliant on political polls, thus reducing campaign coverage to “racehorse” journalism, telling only “who’s ahead” and “who’s behind” stories rather than promoting substantial debates on serious issues. (Richard Campbell, 2016). Our change of viewing Presidential election on television and other forms of mass media has gotten us to engage the political stand in a less than active fashion but an interactive