News is crafted more like entertainment rather than investigating facts. The trend with cinema seems to be realism of fantasy and fiction. Reality TV is presented to us as if it were documenting "Reality" when it's actually a team of writers and producers carefully designing a planned narrative.

We sit at computers reading social media posts of friends and strangers presenting their own selective narratives to their "life" which is more or less a facade that omits the mundane or "real" aspects that we would encounter and be aware of were we not all so far removed and isolated by otherwise anonymous apartment complexes, neighborhoods, and (sub)urban typologies.

Personally, I would not desire any sort of luddite reversion of technology and entertainment. I do believe there is a concerning trend of detachment from reality born out of cultural habits, that is largely derived from mass media.