Social Media has radically changed how we learn about our world. There was a time when a handful of news organization controlled everything we learned. The days of Walter Cronkite, Edward R Murow, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, and so on where the heyday of broadcast journalism, a time when we believed what we were told. Those days are long past us here in American and changing rapidly around the world as well. While there are a few countries who still control the information their citizens get to know, it was not the shakeup in politics that changed things in the Western World, but our impatience and desire for instant everything, from food to news. This infographic from Schools.com shows how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media sites have forever changed how we get our news and how we digest that information.
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