Well looking online for some interesting news to write about, I noticed a complete lack in anything that could actually educate me on the issues today is facing. Those articles are out there, but I found I had to dig through the useless articles like “Awe inspiring recipes”. This really has no relevance to anything so does it really need to be front-page news and why is it right beside an article on a mass murderer? On the other hand, I am a teenager, and to be completely honest I’m not that interested in “CP Rail union, Tories battle over collective bargaining”. I didn’t even open the article because it has nothing that interested me in the title. And that would be the problem. A huge group of Internet users are teens and young people like myself, many of whom have the same interests and those interests are not politics. So are the people producing the media and news to blame or is it our increasing lack of interest in real problems. I’m a bit ashamed to admit that although world issues interest me, as I’m sure they do most people, I don’t go looking for them or read the news to find them. This could be because the media industry has given us so much else to focus on such as the Kardashians and Brad Pitt and all the drama they bring to the table. I think this is a, what comes first the chicken or the egg, type situation; what came first the lack of interest in the issues or the lack of issues being shared. Where did this cycle start?
This is really quite true. I am the same way. Even though we say that we should be more concerned about world issues and have those in the news, we seem to care more about what is happening in Hollywood.
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