Mainstream news outlet readers are happier than their fake news reading counterparts
Tom McGillick investigates the findings of a report which claims mainstream news-reading millennials are happier and more financially stable than their alternative news-loving peers.
Nothing about the current state of news and current affairs gives much cause for optimism. These days, even our most mainstream news outlets regularly eschew impartiality and openly barrack for specific political outcomes, leaving them open to the same accusations of hyper-partisanship that only a few years ago were used to ridicule the most paranoid of fringe digital news titles.
But with print news seemingly too sick to save, and everything that took place to undermine the credibility of mainstream news outlets in the past year alone, it’s surprising to see so little discussion around what effect these trends will have once fully borne out.
When will they just get on with it and ban Facebook!!!
About 66% of Facebook users get their news from FB specifically, and with billions of users that’s a dangerously high number. With cuts to budgets for traditional media, and with a lot of them shifting to online-based news, I think it’s only right young people are worried about what’s fake and what’s not. That’s why media literacy is so important and there are heaps of resources online that help with like Flake On Fake.