The World of Media has changed: no longer you can climb an information ladder with one source
What was the loss of print media which has become the benefit of the broadcast media? In the post-Marco era, it was the broadcast media that experienced unprecedented growth.
According to TNI, the broadcast media in the Philippines, specifically television, has increased tremendously in scope and power over the past several years. In reality, throughout the Philippines, more and more households are getting their information from television than any other media. While we do have ten national English and two Filipino broadsheets, addition to 17 tabloids printed out of Manila that circulates nationwide, newspaper readership has suffered in the last decade, the only conclusion is that television and radio supplanted newspapers as sources of news.
Meanwhile, the tabloids remain as centered as ever on what their reporters have believed is what the public wants for decades. Today, the Philippine media, at least what is generally called the "mainstream," is not so much about decisions. By keeping them ignorant and separated, they're about keeping individuals in their position. That means it's not a question of transition, but of maintaining the country the way it is.
The Philippines is ranked 12th worldwide in terms of the number of internet users as of the first quarter of 2020 (Internet World Stats, 2020a) Given the pervasiveness of the internet in the Philippines, traditional media (print and broadcast) have long invested in online presence to extend coverage, which either reprint stories or videos published in print or shown in TV programs or publish entirely new stories 'as soon as they occur’ according to Media Landscapes. We cannot deny that we Filipinos are social and now with the continues changing face of media from different years, social media has now become the source of Filipinos through different platforms of application in order to keep up with the current events which includes Facebook, WhatsApp, WeChat, Tumblr, Viber, Skype, Snapchat, Pinterest, Myspace, YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram to name a few.
In the Philippines, instead of bookshop, it was the beauty parlor vying closely with the sari-sari store, which indicates that we’re now most likely surrounded by technology and media that only a few people would go to a bookshop or read newspaper to get information. Unless you are living under a rock, you’ve probably used, or at least, came across one of these.
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