Glanced over the readings. Once again, the links they provide are very nice. The first reading was Why do you optimise content for search and social? (Please forgive the British publishers for misspelling optimize. Is their reckless disregard for spelling, a foretelling of the end of western civilisation?)
I like the premise that the content creator should think beyond standard print, to make the article easier to navigate and be more user friendly. It talks about content strategy and how by employing a few simple things can make your work more easily recognized.
These readings relate back to how to create headlines. How headline content will be handled by search engines, and how readers may identify with how the words are arranged.
Jimmy Rohampton’s article discusses the news-gathering habits of millennials. Rohampton discusses how millennials don’t buy into the network hype and view their peers’ opinions over a talking head. Millennials tend to integrate news throughout the day, as opposed to setting an allotted time or avenue to receive it.
Millennials have circumnavigated around the mainstream, pay-for, media scam, but get their info from unproven, unregulated sources. Is BuzzFeed really a credible source? I find it sad that millenials get most of their news from Facebook. Does relevant info get realized on a Facebook feed?
Now days, people disregard journalistic integrity and pick headlines that appeal to their notion of reality. That is scary in 2017, when network media is slandering the leader of the free-world and incriminating a world-superpower (without evidence) of direct tampering of our latest election.
If people believe what they want to believe with no regard for the truth, then we’re all in trouble. Somewhere, somehow, someway, somebody needs to deliver a news-feed without commentary, opinion or slant. Integrity, consistency, impartiality and reliability will slowly earn credibility and respectability over sensationalism, ratings and profitability.
The falling in love with a political party and the hooray for our side mentality inside the news-rooms has to be corrected.
