Final Project
Streaming Services Disrupting Traditional Television News Television News Is Disassembled: A New Media Generation Creates a Rift. As I realize that the image in my head of news while eating breakfast is no longer an everyday occurrence for my peers, I also find that they aren't using traditional networks anymore either. They're on TikTok scrolling through five-minute recap news stories or watching Patriot Act on Netflix. An instantaneous generational divide occurs, and it's more than just a difference in style and preference. Streaming services are dismantling traditional news—it's not just disrupting how people consume it—by reducing potential advertising and sponsorship revenue, creating a lack of cultural cohesion, and ensuring some people have less access to information than others. With 60% of adults claiming streaming as their primary media source (Pew Research, 2023), we need to consider how we used to get news—and what happens if we don't want to get news...