Tuesday, August 27, 2013

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.  

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