“This difference, of course, is a result of the technological transformation of the media and the way that transformation has influenced how the press goes about its work.”
2. This passage is coming after Ken Auletta describes the amount of times President Obama has been on the cover of magazines and how much coverage in the media he actually gets. He goes onto describe when George W. Bush was President there was no Facebook, no Twitter, no YouTube. Auletta states, from between 2006 and 2008, daily online use jumped by a third. Which meant that one-quarter of Americans were getting the news online. So, while the news cycle gets shorter this gives reporters the urge to write an article then move onto the next, without looking into the issues at hand. Leaving the issue an issue and not trying to find ways to solve any of them.
3. This is interesting to me because we are so wrapped up in finding out new things, we aren’t looking at what is really important. In the article Auletta talks about how interested we are with the First Family, we care about what their kids are up to and things like that and we shouldn’t. The littlest new things are exciting to us and it’s kind of ridiculous.
4. The media is controlling the information we see and having a huge impact on us. It is causing us to let any sort of information go in one ear and out the other due to the constant updates on news articles and the internet. Not giving us time to process things like we need too.
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