Trust In the Age of Diversity and Spin

Part I
After reading Hedges' stand on how the trust in media is falling, it is obvious that people look towards television as a source of entertainment rather than information. Many people do not dedicate an hour to watch he news everyday partly because news anymore is meant to bring attention on what captivates a citizens interest, not their personal well being. I don't believe his statement that television will be obsolete in a decade and the only media outlet that we will have is the internet and a cell phone. Look at a normal American working class citizen and you will see someone who needs to multi task to complete a days work successfully. The televison allows us to still complete a task that we need to while not devoting our whole attention. A media outlet such as the internet or a phone requires constant attention, therefore television will not become obsolete. Overall, his arguements are sound and he makes good points and references.
Part II
Michael Hedges claims that the publics' trust in the media and in television is dwindling at a consistent pace. He first claims that budget cuts are the cause of the lower quality of television and thus causes viewers to loss trust in the system. He also claims that mass medias such as google are represented by such mottoes as "don't be evil" which causes users to trust more internet based media. Hedges states that, generally, media diversity lowers the publics trust in media. He backs this claim up, using informal citing, saying in countries such as Scandinavia, for example, where there is less diversity than countries such as America, have more trust in the media. Furthermore stating that more diverse countries such as the UK have much less trust in their media. Hedges makes many interesting points towards the depletion on television. His references are good but the documentation of his references could be more evidence but there is an evident validity in his argument. Although I agree with the fundamental stands Hedges takes, his arguement saying that we hear television will be dead in a decade is something that I can honestly say that I have never heard that television will be completely obsolete in a decade. This is a fallacy because hedges then goes on to explain the same fate to newspapers then finally concluding with his opinion mobile phones will be the only outlet for media that we will need.