News Habits

My most popular source of news comes from the television.  I watch the NBC Nightly News report almost everyday.  I also get my news from the Internet, through websites such as Yahoo and Google.  I am also alerted to some events through social media or from what my friends or family tell me.  Everyday I like to know the major news stories from around the world, and local news stories do not interest me as much.  Updates in political news are especially important to me, and I try to stay abreast of what is going on in Washington because what occurs there affects all our lives in so many ways.  From what little I heard of my classmates’ news habits, I was not very surprised at all.  They, like me, seem to get their news from a variety of sources and rarely from tangible newspapers anymore.  I was surprised, however, that I was the only one in class who did not previously have a Twitter account.  A lot more people today are using Twitter to broadcast the news instantaneously themselves, and it has been intriguing for me to get a Twitter account and become part of this spontaneous, capricious news source.  

What Is News?

News is comprised of the happenings occurring all around us every day; indeed, news chronicles all aspects of life, and people look to the news in order to learn more about current events.  News stories are as variable and far-reaching as human interests and can be as personal and frivolous as the piece of gossip we just told our friend or as serious as the events of a war playing out in some foreign country across the world.  While its true some news stories can feel more tangible or relatable to the average citizen than others, news, no matter how close or far to a person it may be, helps to feed our insatiable thirst for information about what is going on around the world.