The media has been growing larger and larger every year. Over the years there has been numerous problems that have came about. Some problems came about with the continuous growth of media that included problems with accuracy. The problem I will be talking about today though is the problem with social media platforms being biased. Over the years we have seen an increase in the amount of biased opinions in social media. This may be because of the popularity of social media or the increase in the amount of people feeling free to speak their own opinion. There is absolutely nothing wrong with speaking your own opinion but I feel like in social media or especially when on a news broadcast there needs to be a limit on what can be said or some consistency between different broadcasts. I noticed this a lot during the past election. When watching the election you would notice which broadcast was leaning towards a party more than another. Just small things you would notice such as cutting off one party during a speech and not the other or constantly talking bad about one party and praising the other. Flipping back and forth between channels you would get a totally different feel for the election process and results. I am not one to get caught up in politics because there is just too much controversy and you are constantly trying to keep everything civil between parties. Which is also strand because I never thought it was this much hatred for either party but maybe we realize this as we grow older.

The two larger broadcasting stations are FOX and CNN. Each of these keep us up to date on everything about our government and country. As you watch these station you might notice that one station prefers one party over another. CNN is felt to be more Democratic and FOX News is thought to be more Republican. Why is there a station for each side? The most common broadcasts could be portray completely different results or news. How are we suppose to know what is real and what is fluff that the broadcast in presenting to us. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but when you are responsible for giving the public information on important current events there should be a line between facts and opinion that should not be crossed.

In class we watched a video of a news broadcast that was about the U.S. representative and what abruptly interrupted because of breaking news about Justin Bieber. I don’t understand how anything that is happening in Justin Bieber’s life could be “breaking news” but it can not be more important than the U.S. representative. Reporting on the things that are most important should be reported and not the stuff that is interesting or flashy especially on the celebrity side of things. News stations such as CNN and FOX should cover things about our government and nation. Leave the celebrity drama to TMZ.