We are living in a very precarious political landscape at the time. I am not specifically talking about the fact that someone took the famous 1984 Apple Computers Ad that debuted during Super Bowl XXVIII and superimposed Hillary Clinton into the video. While the video was done very well and seems, to this point, not to be an attack by a presidential rival or political group, the surrounding controversy does bring up one question in my mind. Click here to watch the ad.
What happens when the media becomes the news?
This controversy took shape after one person decided to get creative with some video editing software and posted his work for millions to see via Youtube. What happened next is what concerns me. Most major news companies including NBC, FOX, and CNN aired the video and reported on it.
This scares me. The fact that, within a blink of an eye, Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity may report on something that was put-forth from the far reaches of the internet with out fact-checking is something that I can see happening very easily. It is a slippery slope between reporting an issue that started on the internet, and giving wide and, some would say, more credible exposure to this.
News media are scared of the internet and trying to keep pace, instead of realizing that people turn on their evening news programs because they trust what is being said, not because the information is instantaneous. TV, radio, and print news will never be able to compete with cellphones and laptop in the breaking news department.
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