Benkler Reading Response

What stuck with me after reading this is the fact that mass media is completely taken over now. The mass media completely controls the news we get today. This is why we have so much fake news. It seems like they can truly post anything about anyone nowadays. The worst part is people believe it without doing their research. It has become worse than back then because there are so many news sources now. Even twitter accounts that aren’t big news outlets like CNN or NBC can tweet something out and get a lot of attention. This what leads to people spreading rumors. And others sources like TMZ doing whatever they want to get whatever news they want. They ruin people’s privacy as well and no one really stops them. News reporters have leading titles as well and also differences between white news articles and colored news articles. The title is completely different when the bad guy is a colored person but when it’s a white person they saturate it to shine light on him and that he wasn’t a bad guy. This has been going on for years and it isn’t going to stop anytime soon. This is a great example of how money changes everything on the internet. Money overpowers all.