No truth in our news..

I get my news from lots of different sources. Primarily, through the newspaper apps on my iPhone. However, when I really think about it I get my news in LOTS of ways. I will catch bits and pieces of things on the radio, I read articles that I see on Facebook, commercials for certain things, billboards, and random conversations with people, as well as in my classes. There are a lot of ways to “get” the news, and there are also plenty of ways that the news gets to you.

I can think of countless times I’ve said “oh I heard about that!” and it was some minor news story here or there. Another important aspect to think of when we’re talking about “getting the news” is who defines what is newsworthy to each and every person. Who decides what news is worth talking about, worth being news. Even just a billboard advertisement can be translated into a news story. You see the ad for “product A” being sold by “company B” and you think to yourself about how much you love “company B” and will probably love “product A”, well if you shared your experience of seeing the billboard ad with someone else who likes “company B” that sight and billboard are now news. Get what I’m saying?

Anything and everything can be “news” in someone’s eyes! And in that sense I get my news everywhere! I am constantly hearing of NEW things or even old things that are new to me. News in my opinion is shared constantly, we are all constantly hearing new things. I will admit when it comes to be up on the “current” issues “important to society” I am not always the first to know what is going on, especially when it comes to politics since I hate them. Our news industry and media in this country are at times so incredibly worthless since if you’ve noticed they are primarily from wealthy upper class educated white males (there are a lot more women now a days). As much as I love to think that our news is fed to us without any bias’s that is simply not true. I’m ready to get my news from everyday people, and hear what the public, the majority, really has to say on todays issues.