Pleasure Media versus Purpose Media

More recently, due to some of the classes I am taking, including fundamentals of media, I have had to separate my time on media up. I have to balance my time between the media I consume purely for pleasure, and that which I consume to pass my classes and stay up to date on what goes on in the world at large. This recent shift has not only brought me into a larger, more complicated, and very corrupt world, but it also brought my attention to something curious. I spent an average amount of time on media outlets, not really trying to sift through critically through the media garbage, but now that I want to look for real consequential information about things going on in the world, I find that there is an inordinate amount of things that are passed of as important breaking news, and is really nothing but media garbage polished up to look like journalism. For example, the other day I was online and came across an article porn being blocked on google along with information on Putin and Drone strikes and Isis. It hardly makes a global impact if some guy can post his porn in his blog, yet it is lobbed in there with the rest of the, important breaking news stories. I realized that I have to really be in two separate frames of mind when I am viewing pleasure media and purpose media. When I want to view purpose media i have to be very aware of the fact that I need to be really looking for the important news and not the dressed up fluff disguised as journalism.