Shareable Media

Sites like Facebook and Twitter have largely eclipsed the television news world with more people starting to cut the cord. Most people are on the go and need to get their news on the way to work, or when they have a break. As far as the type of news they’re getting, it really all depends on who they follow. Station pages and news organizations will follow the same guidelines that go into reporting on air, and are more trustworthy.

However, the user can choose to follow whoever they want, and a lot of online news sources are more dedicated to being shareable than they are to the truth.

Articles are sometimes written to simply support an opinion and put an idea out there that might or might not be true. Thats the tough part, because while the content in some of these articles may have some relevancy to them, they aren’t entirely fact checked.

Places like buzz feed rely more on shares than they do actual news. A stations goal is to be the first source reporting information, but buzz feed likes to post things that people want to share.

Whether its a cute article or something that tells everyone you think a certain way, the ability to share media and circulate information as quickly as we do is an incredible tool that really comes down to the user, and who they follow.