Martin Kaplan the author of "Welcome to the Infotainment Freak Show" says that the news has changed from giving out real news to a show that is all about ratings and making money. He talks about the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers in 2006, and how it was put out to be the start of WWIII and would become a huge oil war...but instead it was just "crisis porn" which was probably the reason for the escalation of the problem. He believes that the major goal for most is to make money and not to report the news and that's what they care about the most.
I think a lot of what Kaplan is talking about is true. It shows a lot when say a child goes missing or someone that has an abnormal case goes missing. A lot of the time news stations will over cover a certain story and keep saying things like "Breaking News" just so they can hold viewers and obtain higher ratings which in the end will lead to more money.
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