You! – Compared to Everyone Else in the History of Civilization.

The Pew Research Center has published a survey titled “Teens,Social Media & Technology”. In it you will find statistic after statistic describing the technology that the teens of today use to communicate with each other and entertain themselves. The remarkable thing about all of these statistics is that they are describing activities that were impossible for the teens of just a few tears ago to carry out. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. did not exist until after every teenager alive today was born. Even the idea that teens could spend any time online is relatively new. As late as 1997 only 18% of US households reported accessing the internet. Social Media doesn’t really exist until the 21^st century. What does it all mean? What will change? My guess is everything.

Another One Bites the Dust

How important is it to you to believe your newscaster? A half generation ago the most trusted man in the country was Walter Cronkite the nightly broadcast news anchor for CBS. Now news casters have become the laughingstock of the internet.

Brian Williams “misremembering” of events while covering the Iraq War may well cost him his job. And believe me, it is one of the best jobs in American media. There is currently only room for three anchor positions in nightly broadcast news. His position has earned Brian Williams a net worth of $40 million and salary of $13 million per year.

Here may be some of the last words you will hear from the NBC News anchor, “In the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news, it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions… As managing editor of ‘NBC Nightly News,’ I have decided to take myself off of my daily broadcast for the next several days.”

You can read more about Brian Williams’s debacle in the NewYork Times.

By the way, according to a nationwide survey the most trusted person in America is now Tom Hanks.