I’d be very much surprised if teens weren’t shunning traditional news channels long before TikTok and even Instagram existed.
Wow, Ofcom ironically late to catch on to this ‘news’…
I’m more concerned about the over 50s shunning them for random shite on Facebook tbh.
Did teens ever not shun traditional news channels?
Do any teens watch news anyway?
Like maybe only stuff their interested in but other than that?
Maybe if the news were actually engaging, didn’t continually treat anyone between the age of 18 and 35 like some kind of enemy, and didn’t constantly pander to a lowest common denominator while quite blatantly pushing pro-Tory propaganda there might be a bit more interest.
I’ve been trying to watch a lot more recently with the Tory leadership race going on and honestly its just painful. The biases and disconnect from any notion of relevance to real day to day life have become absurdly blatant. You get better coverage watching foreign news channels than you do watching our own domestic content.
Which will make them easily to manipulate in the future if it continues. So much of what’s on TikTok is nonsense. There’s even whole channels which specialise in debunking the volume of crap shared…
There are some people on social media actually doing a good job with fact checking and making sure they cover all sides then there’s the majority of them who just scream some shite with zero fact checking
Get John Craven back on Newsround in his whacky jumpers.
What it simply means is this is the stuff they look at, not a source of news.
…Well that’s terrifying, given the amount of absolute unfiltered fakery that exists on TikTok and Instagram.
One pedals misinformation, the other disinformation
Traditional news channels are both repetitive and utterly draining and depressing, so this is unsurprising. Social media is what you make it. Plenty of people on Tiktok and Insta are explaining things in easy to understand language and succinctly, instead of staring into your soul grimly while giving you a truncated version that follows their biases like many of the news stations do nowadays.
Hell, I’m far from being a teenager and I’d far rather watch someone on a social media platform react incredulously to say, a video of Boris actually speaking, rather than watching an edited newsclip that cuts around him to make him sound more professional and reasonable with cleaned up quotes and a severe voiceover.
I feel like ‘news’ is being misinterpreted by Ofcom here as well to mean ‘current events’. If I want news on what my favourite singer is releasing next for example, I’m going straight to their social media. The likelihood of it being on the BBC news is pretty low unless its Ed Sheeran or Adele!
I’m 35 and I’ve been shunning trad news channels for the past two decades.
So much social media is US generated garbage, ignorance and falsehoods though.
As opposed to homegrown bias.
TIL that the earth is flat, Jesus is about to return to save humanity, the Four Horsemen are here, evolution is a lie made up by corporations – as is global climate change, men can have babies, women can’t have abortions and finally that Covid doesn’t exist. Oh, and Walmart have got a sale on for ammunition and baby wipes, with an extra 5% off if you use your local church credit card.
But at the end of the day, they have all become echo chambers. Even, sadly, this fine platform.
I like how they start by saying mainstream media lies to you.
Then everything on tiktoc and instagram is gosbul.
Bring back John craven.
i mean yeah fair enough? the news is about as believeable as some random person on tiktok anyway, they both exaggerate the truth to get views/readers
plus the news is constantly “trans people bad” or “someone has died… again”, barely anything positive or anything that improves anyone’s day is ever shown on the news, so why bother
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I’d be very much surprised if teens weren’t shunning traditional news channels long before TikTok and even Instagram existed.
Wow, Ofcom ironically late to catch on to this ‘news’…
I’m more concerned about the over 50s shunning them for random shite on Facebook tbh.
Did teens ever not shun traditional news channels?
Do any teens watch news anyway?
Like maybe only stuff their interested in but other than that?
Maybe if the news were actually engaging, didn’t continually treat anyone between the age of 18 and 35 like some kind of enemy, and didn’t constantly pander to a lowest common denominator while quite blatantly pushing pro-Tory propaganda there might be a bit more interest.
I’ve been trying to watch a lot more recently with the Tory leadership race going on and honestly its just painful. The biases and disconnect from any notion of relevance to real day to day life have become absurdly blatant. You get better coverage watching foreign news channels than you do watching our own domestic content.
Which will make them easily to manipulate in the future if it continues. So much of what’s on TikTok is nonsense. There’s even whole channels which specialise in debunking the volume of crap shared…
There are some people on social media actually doing a good job with fact checking and making sure they cover all sides then there’s the majority of them who just scream some shite with zero fact checking
Get John Craven back on Newsround in his whacky jumpers.
What it simply means is this is the stuff they look at, not a source of news.
…Well that’s terrifying, given the amount of absolute unfiltered fakery that exists on TikTok and Instagram.
One pedals misinformation, the other disinformation
Traditional news channels are both repetitive and utterly draining and depressing, so this is unsurprising. Social media is what you make it. Plenty of people on Tiktok and Insta are explaining things in easy to understand language and succinctly, instead of staring into your soul grimly while giving you a truncated version that follows their biases like many of the news stations do nowadays.
Hell, I’m far from being a teenager and I’d far rather watch someone on a social media platform react incredulously to say, a video of Boris actually speaking, rather than watching an edited newsclip that cuts around him to make him sound more professional and reasonable with cleaned up quotes and a severe voiceover.
I feel like ‘news’ is being misinterpreted by Ofcom here as well to mean ‘current events’. If I want news on what my favourite singer is releasing next for example, I’m going straight to their social media. The likelihood of it being on the BBC news is pretty low unless its Ed Sheeran or Adele!
I’m 35 and I’ve been shunning trad news channels for the past two decades.
So much social media is US generated garbage, ignorance and falsehoods though.
As opposed to homegrown bias.
TIL that the earth is flat, Jesus is about to return to save humanity, the Four Horsemen are here, evolution is a lie made up by corporations – as is global climate change, men can have babies, women can’t have abortions and finally that Covid doesn’t exist. Oh, and Walmart have got a sale on for ammunition and baby wipes, with an extra 5% off if you use your local church credit card.
But at the end of the day, they have all become echo chambers. Even, sadly, this fine platform.
I like how they start by saying mainstream media lies to you.
Then everything on tiktoc and instagram is gosbul.
Bring back John craven.
i mean yeah fair enough? the news is about as believeable as some random person on tiktok anyway, they both exaggerate the truth to get views/readers
plus the news is constantly “trans people bad” or “someone has died… again”, barely anything positive or anything that improves anyone’s day is ever shown on the news, so why bother