Jamyson Butler
jb935918@ohio.edu
Journalists have a job, and it is to push out to society the
recent news and topics that will get views, whether it is good or bad. There
are legalities and ethics involved, but sometimes you have to take risks
looking at the numbers. Journalists get a lot of backlash for solely doing
their job. However, even though people get angry, they feed into the media.
The media can easily divide people, societies, workplaces, etc. Many people form their opinions around what they see on the media, not knowing whether it is real news or fake. Sometimes the emotions take over, and you see breaking news and just run with it without fact-checking.
Fake news can take a toll on society. When you first read something and trigger your emotions, you aren't thinking or reading into it. You start spreading it out of shock. When it is discovered that this is fake news, it will create a lot of drama, mainly after it has been spread everywhere and raised many emotions.
According to Jerry Silver, censorship plays a significant role in the divide. Censorship, the suppression of images, words, or offensive ideas, is brutal to detect today. As time has passed, it has become easier for anyone to publish something and avoid censorship, which creates a lot of offensive, inappropriate, hateful, and unsafe topics on the internet.
There are two types of people, social media optimists, and social media pessimists. Social media optimists argue that social media redefines how we relate to each other and believe everyone has a voice. Social media pessimists believe that social media is just a place full of fake news and critiques.
Many factors can influence a person's opinions on the media. According to the Mclean hospital article, psychologically, it can even affect someone's feelings and mental well-being. It can make a person feel horrible about themselves and insecure to the point where it can make them despise the media.
The people choose to decide how they want to look at social media and take in this information. It is all about perspective at the end of the day. The way society chooses to perceive the media is on them, which can also decide if the media will divide them. The media is not dividing people, and the people are letting them divide them.
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