Many of my peers agreed with me in that they get most of their news from
people. Also, many admitted to not reading (or watching) the news as much as
they probably should. It was interesting that some didn’t even consider the
‘news’ of a newborn baby as news. Many though did include the Facebook newsfeed
as a source of information. I agreed with David, Lewis and Gina in that the
news shows very dramatic stories on a reel but seldom talks about positive
aspects of society. I was surprised nobody, myself included, referenced YouTube
as a source of news. Nobody would know about “ain’t nobody got time for that”
without YouTube.
Maybe it all depends on what are defining as news. Is it personal?
Local? Global? How important does it have to be and how do we define what’s
important news? Does news even have to be important. I simple define news as
any new information but individual people define civic literacy differently.
Hedges would say, to all the people using Facebook as a source of new
information, “See, I told you, the media is watering down our intelligence!” I
think Sullivan would be insulted that nobody uses his blog (or any blog for
that matter) to get his or her news. He posts proudly and constantly about
interesting new stories every day. I
think Carr would say that all of our answers are in-line with the time.
Technology is what gives us the capability to have the amount of news resources
we have today.
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Your comments about what you think Hedges, Sullivan, and Carr would say about how we get our news are very accurate. Hedges would definitely be disgraced by this fact and Carr would agree that because of technology we are perhaps being informed more about news now than before.
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