Blog response
4
Title: News,
trust, and “truthiness”!
In the media we have access
to different sources that provide us with Intel from the news. Each media
source has a different way to retain information and different ways of getting
it out into the media and to different societies. Every person is different in
the way of taken in certain new reports. Some people can get their news from a
different source every day and some people go to a certain news source that
they trust, that they can rely on. Everyone has a general impression of what
can and cannot be trusted.
In Jessica’s blog she thinks
that satirical news reports are more relatable than the traditional news
reports. In her blog she says “Although
satirical news reports can be humorous to watch, it gives us different
perspectives on many different cultural topics that are normally told not to
question. Using humor in satirical news reports makes this form of culture
jamming more lighthearted, easier to understand, and more effective1”.
I agree with her stand point because it just makes sense. If people don’t grasp,
don’t understand what certain news reportages are trying to explain then why
repeat it like that? It would make more sense to repeat the importance of the
news in a way that it will reach a large majority of the audience so they could
take some type of knowledge from it and do something about it if they believe it’s
necessary.
In Allison’s blog she believes that both
the satirical news reports and the traditional news reports are equal. In her
blog she gives the example of Global News and Saturday Night live. “Global News
is famous for airing at the same times every day, and raising national
awareness about events occurring globally. The ‘Weekend Update’ section of
Saturday Night live is famous for turning those events into comedy2”.
Both shows bring out awareness by one show using the other and paving it with a
sense of humour to make it more appealing to the audience. SNL takes the events
occurring globally from the Global News and turns them into comedy. Global News’
audience is more so for older people as SNL has a young adult audience. With
the help of SNL, the news from Global News is able to reach the young adults
which will give them insight to what is happening within society.
In
Christine’s blog she also agrees that satirical news reports are equally
reliable to traditional news reports. She says that “News and current affairs
media is boring and in many ways very serious, using comedy to express news
stories provides a type of comic relief that makes it easier for the audience
to grasp and focus on3”. The use of comedy is useful. They will
attract a younger audience by drawing them in with the humour, but still distribute
the information but also making it more interesting at the same time.
After
reading several blogs, it is apparent that most of my peers believe that
satirical news reportages are equally reliable to traditional news reportages.
It is good that satirical news reportages are getting young adults and teenagers
to take an interest in the news but it also has its implications. Making the
news interesting is a good way to draw people in, but the truth is being
altered when doing so. Changing around the facts is taking away the truth and
the messages that the news is trying to put out into society. The people aren’t
getting the true facts, they are getting bits and pieces of it which can cause major
miss communications and the people may not understand what was supposed to be
intended. Overall both types of news reportages are good and useful, but the
truth is also the most important.
Work
Cited
[1] http://jessicaznaczko.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/cpcf-1f25-blog-entry-4-is-the-fake-news-real-news/
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