Do you think this affects the ability of news media to uphold their social responsibilities?

[trisha b]

Many news media now attempt to increase popularity by adding entertainment value along with information-based news. Do you think this affects the ability of news media to uphold their social responsibilities?

[Rick]

Only about 25% of the American public uses mainstream media such as news programs and newspapers for seriously getting their news according to a recent poll.

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Yes
See in the past 15 yrs we've gone from 90% of news media being tv, magazines, newspapers to about 50%. With the introduction of better laptop computers and smartphones we will soon see a massive movement to digital technolgies and tv and newspapers will soon become on-line because of more and more internet users. By 2050 tv would become endangered the way we know it but tv would soon become a computer program not a metal box with wires at the back of it connecting it to electricty. Tv and newspapers will exist by 2050 but they will be online that;s the difference.