Blake's Media and Society Blog

Journalists have a very important job in this time of chaos to be clear and contribute necessary information to its listeners. Viewers have an important job of taking what people who have conducted research and studied the disease to listen to what the reports are. I found it very interesting and cool that they have a view mindsets of just repeating a simple and clear message that everyone can remember. This is easy for someone who has not paid hardly any attention to the news and for the person who can't stop watching. Earlier when the pandemic was just beginning to take shape a reoccurring topic was washing your hands. They were adamant about informing you of how to wash and for how long. Then if you fast forward to today it has progressed to stay at home and social distancing. This is something we've all heard from someone regardless of how much media we have decided to take in. It also mentions the use of graphs and charts as opposed to words. I think this makes total sense...

This is a very interesting time for our country and for social media as now everything that gets posted on any form of social media is breaking news. People do not take the time to evaluate what they are reading and fact check the articles or posts they receive the information from. I think people need to be smarter about what they post and repost as certain people can become anxious over false information. Also, people can take something as serious as this and blow it off. I think we as consumers need to take any information we receive, not from a reliable verified source, with a grain of salt as we do not really know the validity of the post. If we do not know something is true we should not repost it. If we repost things we do not have the support of we are contributing to the problem of the spread of fake news. I also liked how the article mentioned the dates of articles and to be mindful of when something was posted in reference to when you are reading it. In something as serious ...