Binary Models: Information vs. Entertainment and Elitist verse Populist

The soul purpose of a journalist is to provide valuable and valid information for the common good of the people. Although this is the intention, there are many factors that may prevent this from actually happening. A binary model that represents those factors are information verses entertainment. Usually the most useful news isn't the most entertaining. Even though it isn't the most useful, people would rather hear about how many kids Kim Kardashian is having, than about political issues. Journalists struggle because they want to inform people about what is useful, but have trouble making the important information entertaining for people to watch. That is where entertainment comes in. Some journalists are blinded by the fact that their information has to be entertaining so people will be more interested. This is called infotainment. Although more people want to watch infotainment, a con is that they are getting less of the information needed because they are blinded by the entertainment factor. This is where another binary model comes in: elitist verses populist. Elitists are journalists that aren't focused on making their news interesting, they just want to convey important, useful messages to the people. They do not care about their income nor how many views they are receiving, just about informing the people on what they need to know. They fall into the category of information instead of entertainment. Populists are journalists that do want to inform people on current news as well, but are more in it for the money. Before they present the public with a news story, they consider how many views the story will receive and how many people will be interested. They share infotainment, because they want more people to be interested in their news and more people to tune in, creating more money for themselves. An example of a populist news station is "E! News". How many kids Kim Kardashian has may be interesting, but no it does not concern us. It isn't useful news. But people would rather watch "E! News" than tune into an elitist news source such as the newspaper, because their stories are more interesting.
I am someone that is a huge fan of E! News. I love hearing about celebrity gossip and seeing who was best dressed for the Grammy's. Before Mr. Miller's lecture, I never thought anything of it. But after, I started thinking to myself how the information was only interesting, and not at all useful. Now that we have started our current events quizzes in Journalism 1, it gives me a chance to go through Elitist news sites and use my own judgment to seek out the important news that may be on the quiz. I realized I love populist news, but I am having a new found interest on politics and news that effect myself, my country, and the world.