Democracy and the Media - It's Complicated

2015 (pre-Trump Era) Submitted to a writing contest, some early thoughts on 'democratization' of our media and some of the optimistic notions that have ultimately proven perhaps not so rosy.

Indeed, it is complicated.

There is a democratization of our media that has given people broader choices to participate through the connectivity of our technology. Access to the tools of broadcast media are empowering people so much so that our collective perceptions are painting the world with an increasingly influential brush. The politics of the peopl…