It is totally
overrated.
By this time about 70 to 90 million
Filipinos is the number range for the actual social media users here in the
Philippines alone, and the numbers can still vary and improve depending on the
timeline.
With the way things have been, social
media seems to have become the “be all and end all of media”, since the onslaught
of the many challenges that taunted the industry, when media
stations have closed down, while some are still struggling to survive.
These recent
developments that have affected the media landscape, such as the shutting down
of networks and companies, whether permanently or simply posturing for further ambiguity-- as modern entities of news and communication; and purveyors of entertainment, seem to have underlined its lack of boundaries or finiteness in establishing its stakes in the industry.
Moreso, it appears to have been forced to
do a "transformation", without enough breathing space to study the normalcy of how ordinary
netizens consume information on mass media.
Like a funnel and into a pitfall of
further depthtitude, local media have become icebergs while many are blind-sighted in their solutions to survive while morphing and rebranding; testing further the possibilities of venture into other forms beyond print
and broadcast. Such is their aggressiveness to encompass other multimedia formats, shattering rattle media
formalities, and making way for supreme interconnectivity.
There are many consequences that surround
these developments.
Media companies also have easy prey to the influence and clamor for further social media brazenness and
ineptitude that could cloud their mission/vision and also hyper-fluctuate their
unique identity in the middle of change.
ABS-CBN, from a distant view, had to let go of its known formula for news
transmission; and has appeared helpless, which pushed it to wallow and waddle through
the murky online news streaming; shutted to compete with countless minor players, like a sub-channel of another media company.
THIS CHANGE ALONE, ALONG WITH THE
LOSS OF LOCAL TALENTS, IS NOT JUST AN ARROW SHOT TO LIMP THE SOLID IDENTITY AND UNPARALLELED BRANDING OF THE
NETWORK AS A SUPER TELEVISION NETWORK.
IT ALSO LENT CHANNEL 2 AN IMPRESSION UNEXPECTED, THAT IT CAN BE SUBSERVIENT TO OTHER MEDIA COMPANIES, a downgrade of sorts, AND RELEGATE ITS TOP SPOT
TO CO-TEAM WITH OTHER COMPANIES.
With ABS-CBN side-swept by political
pressure and trends, its powers were fainted by the dominance of social media. The exiting of companies or tapering down of broadcast; and minimalization of published pages, also signalled the birthing of many brave minor players who are eager to jump into fame or submit to the lure of having
their own media companies.
Here lies complications for further
media industry fragmentation and shift of power from the media owners and visionaries
to the palm of the unskilled, ordinary, and inexperienced information providers
who want influence; or aim to domineer, dominate, or takeover an industry, without enough
altruism to provide fair and balanced news reporting, and tasteful, educated news and entertainment.
TO BE CONTINUED…
revised August 29, 2023, 6:03pm local time Philippines
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