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Cons Of Infotainment

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Throughout the years, the form of media being disturbed has been progressing. Going from only having newspaper in the 1605 to where it was only local rather than broad, to when radios were invented in 1900s, where almost every house hold had radio to tune in on broadcasts from radio stations. However, after the televisions where disturbed to every house in America more and more people were able to keep up with the political world and news. Growth of cable television has expanded throughout the years going from few channels to couple hundred depending on the provider. The role of the media is to scrutinize the actions of the government officials, in other words be the watchdog by informing its citizens of what is happening around the country …show more content…

Infotainment tends to have more of broad variety of audience rather than a specific type. Infotainment stays neutral on political information distribution also neutral on whether the politics lean towards Democratic or Republican side. An example of infotainment would be CNN, where the new disturbed is broad and challenges each side with arguments on its views regarding and issue. Pros of infotainment is that it generally has many viewers and the information can be disturbed with entertainment such as scandals which hooks the audience into keeping up with what issues American encounters. Some cons of infotainment are that most of the times it tends to focus more on entertainment aspect that the information part, where issues that are important seems to cheapen and become less serious than in reality when more people should be more aware of the issue. For example, most people are more interested in what Donald Trump is doing rather than his political views or what he intends to change once being in office, it is more about the …show more content…

The information disturbed tends to be more informational than having any hint of entertainment added in to the issue. An example would be channel like Fox News where the information is very objectives and biased towards Republican Party; whereas, NBC News is more Democratic. Both channels have certain political views they favor therefore, the information being disturbs is only regarding what is more favorable for that specific party not including both sides of the issue. Another example would be the History Channel where only a specific group of people have the tendency to watch the documentary shown, most people think watching history as irrelevant since in the modern world it is about looking ahead in the future with an optimistic mind set rather than looking at the past with all the mistakes. Pros of narrowcasting is that the news it more informational and specific than being a broad idea on the issue, it tends to be focusing on certain issues beneficial to the party. Major con of narrowcasting would be the bias presented in the distribution of the political issue at hand. The growth of distribution of media has an impact of facilitation of both infotainment and narrowcasting on politics in the United

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