Millions of viewers of all ages turn into the news every night. The news is a form of media, and many people have came up with their own acronyms for news. Many people have came to believe that the word ‘news’ is actually an acronym for Notable Events, Weather and Sport; that is because news is supposed to broadcast this important information.

So… what actually makes news news then?

Well ask the six major companies that control a 90% of the media seen by Americans.

The figure below really visually amplifies the amount of control and power these SIX major companies have on the media we view everyday. Media has turned into a business with monopolies have the power to control what we see.

TV shows such as The News Room which aired on HBO (which BTW is owned by one of the major companies!) showed what news should be. Modern news has shifted from informing people to entertaining people. In the show a character, Will, is the news caster of a news show called “News Night,” and his show is trying to fix news. Instead of entertaining watchers and making profit the company aimed to give the viewers facts.

The show talked about how news should state facts and be straight forward. News currently can be very skewed towards different viewpoints depending on which channel a viewer decides to watch. In the show the news team is working on taking a moral-high road on news, which is something you don’t see very often today. News which omits facts or is purely for entertainment purposes can be described as

“FAKE NEWS.”

So what is news? Is it whatever the six major media companies want to show us? Is it entertainment and celebrities? Is it weather? It it what is going on with politics? How about what is going on with the world?

Is the news your watching even news or is it “fake news?”

I guess that depends on where a person gets their news from? CNN, FOX, ET, Twitter, Facebook?

Each of these stations may broadcast a different perspective on a story. Or maybe they will even broadcast different stories. So it is up to viewers’ discretion to decide where they get their news from and what stories are important to them.