Journalism’s Future
- Journalism is too biased = common complaint.
- Compared to boomers and what’s left of the GI Generation, Millennials and Gen Z are consuming less news and current events about the world.
- Somewhere in the 2000s, readership and viewership dropped.
- A generational change?
- GI Generation grew up with radio as a primary news source
- Boomers grew up with TV as news source
- Millennials grew up with TV and some social media
- Gen Z is growing up with primarily social media and apps as their news source
- This quarantine-born generation might have VR and AR as the way they get news.
- A generational change?
- Journalism has mostly always been sensational.
- 18th century British/Colonial –> 19th century Antebellum/Abolitionist –> 20th century Muckraking –> 21st social justice.
