Recently, I’ve been thinking about dumbing down and what I’ve learnt over the last few months. Well, it’s not looking good I’m afraid. When we started I was expecting to do some research and personally discover how and why news/audiences have dumbed down and whether there was a correlation between the two. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen. Whilst I learnt new theories and came up with a few of my own, I am yet to find THE reason. But then maybe there’s a good reason for this.
Maybe dumbing down doesn’t exist. Maybe we have evolved into something new, a people that don’t need long informative bulletins because we can receive short news stories wherever we are. Online, on our mobiles, radio’s 90 second bulletins, etc etc. Or we could just blame the government for failing us in our education. It’s certainly easier but I’m not sure it’s the answer.
We could blame our parents for not encouraging us enough to take a more active interest in news and current affairs. But then again, maybe not.
You see where I’m coming from? Why has Generation X apparently forced broadcasters to change the way they feed us news?
I’ll get back to you when I know. In the mean time, I'm off to watch the latest American Big Brother on E4.
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