Who is a gatekeeper? Am i a gatekeeper? Are you a gatekeeper? Gatekeepers are people who decide what people should read or see as news. Given the internet than you and I are both gatekeepers, but on radio and television who are those gatekeepers. Lawyers, that's who are television gatekeepers. They decide what should be news because they say if they story might have legal ramifications.
Although if you think about it everyone involved in the news process is a gatekeeper. They reporter or editor/producer decides what story is news and if it is worth covering. From there somone covers the story and decides what they feel is news worthy. Then they try and pass it on the the public who has no say what they cover as news.
The gatekeepers of tomorrow are probably going to be the public because of the internet. People want information quickly and the internet is the best way. The internet also allows people to choose what they want to read instead of being force feed news, like television does.
Like Kelley and Gabby's quote says, "What you get is what you got because when they own the information they can bend it all they want” – John Mayer
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