Well quite obviously the biggest similarity is that we all get MOST of our news from the internet….shocker. However, another similarity that is important to note is that most of the news is also coming from reliable sources, not tmz, or twitter. Thank god. With this in mind I think we can safely say our class will note become civically illiterate….but that’s just our class.
I had expected to see that most of us used online news sources to gain our knowledge, what I hadn’t expected was a wide range. I personally turn to AOL or Roadrunners news because that’s where my email is, for yahoo users the same can be said. Some people use times, some use CNN others BBC. To be honest I’m not quite sure what all of the affiliations are but I’m sure that people lean toward the articles that they favor.
What I did find interesting was that no one else uses their smart phones to check for news. While it’s a form of online news it is still a separate way and one that I use daily. I have the Washington post app, the huffington post, the weather channel (still news!), as well as the Lincoln Journal Star which is my local paper back home. If I’m waiting in an office, or between classes, or anywhere where you want to “pretend” to be on your phone to make things less awkward, the news is what I go to! Or DragonVale a game which all iPhone owners MUST get.
Another note since it is Super Bowl Sunday…I’m sure that quite a few people who posted on their blogs about not watching the news because they don’t have a tv or don’t watch theirs, somehow found a way to watch the game even though it is so irrelevant when it comes to things of importance in this world (juuuust saying)
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