While journalists feel over-communicated and overburdened, the audience gets stuck determining what is real and what is fake. To cut through the media “noise,” Journalists create their own space, develop new inventive methods and employ artificial intelligence that offer better ways to analyze and source news materials (Braun and Eklund, 2019). On the other hand, to be sure if a received news is real or fake, we are advised to normalize on checking credibility of the source, author, other sources with similar story, and examining the evidence if possible (Parikh and Atrey, 2018).
The free media is critical to our democracy, and this freedom is critical to ensuring that the news media may criticize and hold the American government accountable. Even though most people get their digital news free, journalists get financial support from selling per-use copyright or subscriptions to the audience, advertisements surrounding the content, selling consumer information and event hosting (Braun and Eklund, 2019).
Communication through images has become better than text communication. Image communications break our messaging by creating attention to both the picture and the surroundings. Studies indicate that when images are used, they boost our communication by evoking emotions and capturing attention in a short time (Parikh and Atrey, 2018). However, if an image is not appropriately used for its intended function and audience, we might be distracted and get misinformed.
References
Braun, J. A., & Eklund, J. L. (2019). Fake news, real money: Ad tech platforms, profit-driven hoaxes, and the business of journalism. Digital Journalism, 7(1), 1-21.
Parikh, S. B., & Atrey, P. K. (2018, April). Media-rich fake news detection: A survey. In 2018 IEEE conference on multimedia information processing and retrieval (MIPR) (pp. 436-441). IEEE.