Meddling Media

Anne Campolongo
ac332310@ohio.edu

The media is a group that is always around.  They are always there when you don't want them to be there, and then they aren't there when you want them to be there.  Whether the public wants them there or not, it is the media's job to share the truthful story with the public.  A lot of times they can be shown in a negative light, but it's not that they are always doing negative news-type things.

Social Media

At my internship over the summer the one thing I realized was that talent always must have a social media presence.  It is just part of the job nowadays.  At the specific station I interned at, their talent has to post on social media several times a day.  The TV manager made it clear that to compete with other stations, they must be on their game all day long.  They are required to tweet or post updates if they are on the scene of an accident/etc.  News is being released on social media before it is released anywhere else.  In today's world there is a constant flow of information, and we share it through social media.

At the same time, sometimes information can be posted and not be correct.  It often times a mistake that information is shared and then the credibility decreases.  Not all media is bad, and people have different experiences with different media.  The public is always going to be interested in what is going on.  The media are human too.  I think some people forget that.  I think people get the wrong idea sometimes and think the media are out to get them.  They can relate to the story and to how the victims of the story feel.  This is a good story about how people felt about the media in relation to the stories they were covering.

For any article, there is always protocol for how to handle a story.  We all hear about the different stories in the news, some focused more on some thing, some on others.  I think now we definitely see more creative stories, and the stations with unique stories win and beat out the other stations that just present the typical news stories.  It's now more of a race between how we present the story and what the story is about.  Maybe a smaller story on a typical crime event is just released on Twitter, that way there is more time for a special piece on some other event that happened.

Maybe it is also wise for stations to look at their stories and decide what makes the cut and what does not.  This is a good explanation of what makes a story newsworthy.

In the end, the news changes day by day, and we decide what we like and don't like.  We are trending toward public media these days, and who knows what the next outlet for news will be in the next few years.  As the media changes and grows we must grow and change with the media.