Mass Media and Fake News

MASS MEDIA

     Mass media:  The mass media is a diversified collection of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication.

        Broadcast media transmit information electronically (film, radio, music or television). Digital media comprises internet and mobile mass communication. Outdoor media transmits information via billboards advertising... Print media transmit information via books, comics, magazines, newspapers, or pamphlets. Public speaking can also be considered as a form of mass media. Three examples of mass media:

1. Television: The television or TV was created in 1920. It is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in black and white (monochrome) or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound. Since its creation it has been one of the most used mass media all over the planet.
2. Radio: The radio (technology of using radio waves to carry information) was created in 1896 by Marconi and nowadays is used by a lot of people all over de world sometimes to entertain with programs, sports streamings, listening to music... A lot of people also use the radio to heard the news.
3. Internet: created in nearly 1990. It was created with militar purposes and after a time it became accesible to everyone. Nowadays is one of the most used mass media, if not the most. It has became really popular because it enables you to do whatever you want from shopping online to listen to music or heard the news almost inmediatly. 

FAKE NEWS

Fake news is a type of yellow journalism or propaganda that consists of deliberate disinformation. Fake news is written and published with the intent to mislead in order to damage an agency, entity, or person, and/or gain financially or politically