Keyword – news abundance

Gálik, Mihály:

In a hole: An essay on the news media

Dynamic growth in news media industries combined with overall structural changes within them has been a highly important research field in communication sciences for a long time. Between the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, newspaper publishing turned into a large-scale industry. Later on, newsreels in film production, regular news programming in radio and television broadcasting gradually broadened the scope of news media during the 20th century, and finally, in the 1990s online news services entered the scene. In a couple of years after the millennium, social news sites and search engines joined online news services in digital networked media and began to undermine the robust building of legacy news media. Is this process an example for the creative destruction of innovations or something else doing more harm than giving benefit? Well, the answer to this question is largely a function of one’s approach.

Keywords: agenda setting, bias, news, news abundance, newsworthiness, objectivity, online news media, polarisation