Back on May 7th, I read an article about the news media and marketing. You can find the article here...http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/05/the-media-marke.html
This idea that the media sells drama has been on my mind for a while. There seems to have been a paradigm shift in the purpose of the media somewhere along the way. If I understand the purpose of journalism and media (which I may not, some journalism major can correct me), it was created to disseminate information to the public. It seems now that the glory of news media is not to be informative, but to be financially productive. This is why they sell the news and create drama, even when it is non-existent.
Does this bother anyone or is it just me?
