Why is it that more people care more about what happens to celebrities and TV shows than what is happening to peoplr across the globe? I was looking at the CNN “Most Popular” news story listings and what I saw were things like “Can this fading TV show be saved?” and “Hilton drives w/suspended license”, which in my opinion aren’t really important news stories. Apparently most of the people that went to CNN’s website today thought they were important though, passing over any news stories regarding politics or world news.
This New News idea that has shown that people would rather read an "interesting"
story than something that is considered to be news is clearly changing the way in which the media reports the news. Many of the events that the media reports on nowadays are what many older people would consider to not be news. Is the everyday person beginning to grow tired of hearing about what is going on in the world and becoming obsessed with seemingly insignificant stories designed simply for entertainment? Hopefully people in
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