The Importance Of Entertainment News

The news and the sources we use are an important part of society. Through the news, we are able to access current events and information across the nation and the world. Receiving legitimate facts from the news is important, therefore it is imperative to examine the sources from which they are read. Different news sources input a distinct agenda into their news. They bend current events in the views that they are based around. For example, Fox news bends their stories towards a more conservative view, while companies such as Buzzfeed are liberal with their stories. Political bias is present in all news, whether people realize it or not. One such example is the widely debated topic of climate change. Different news sources frame climate change

However, entertainment news has been credited with fact checking their articles just like traditional news sites. News outlets such as Buzzfeed, Vox and Upworthy are credible sources and their target audience is primarily younger generations..These outlets understand that it is more difficult to catch the attention of younger generations, therefore they have tailored their news to be more accommodating and attention catching. For this reason, older generations and traditional news sources look down on entertainment news, even though they convey the same information. The majority of entertainment news tend to be liberal, but sites such as Upworthy try to be straightforward without a specific lean in the news they convey. The website Megaonline wrote an article for the news outlet, Buzzfeed, keeping their audience in mind. Megaonine broke up the article into segments so that readers stayed interested which is important for relevant subjects such as climate change. “According to a 2009 European Commission survey, consumers consider recycling as the single most important thing they can do to protect the environment. But the facts reveal that for an average person, heating or cooling their home is the most significant component of their carbon footprint” (Megaonline 1). The article explains how people are being fed fake news about climate change to the extent that they

Moreover, Buzzfeed is seen as a fun source of news filled with celebrities and quizzes. However they still fact check articles that contain the same news as traditional news sites such as CNN. Zahra Hijiri is a journalist for Buzzfeed who often writes about climate change, so when she noticed that several federal websites scrubbed information about climate change from its sites, she immediately contacted representatives from the agencies and documented evidence of the change (Hirji1). She fact checked her information and her sources to make the article about the scrubbing of the topic as precise as possible. Buzzfeed is hard working on its fact based articles as it is in its entertainment quizzes clearly evident in Hiriji’s works. “The most extensive changes have occurred on the Environmental Protection Agency’s website, which has dropped “climate” from various program names and removed hundreds of pages and links to climate resources.” (Hirji 1). Under Trump’s administration, several major federal websites, including the EPA and Interior Department, removed topics connected to climate change from their websites. It is commonly known that Trump and his administration do not believe that climate change is a current issue, so the fact that several federal websites scrubbed it from their records is monumental. In addition to the controversy of fake news and climate