Compared to my classmates, I am beyond behind on keeping up with the news because it’s apparent that they go out of their way to see what’s going on in the world. For my case, the news usually comes to me. For example, when opening up my internet explorer, Yahoo is the first thing that pops up and it has a spot for news articles that immediately catch your attention. This is mainly how I get my news but in my classmate’s blogs, I have noticed the get their news from a variety of places.
Finding out that mostly all of my classmate’s get their news from the internet was not a surprise at all. In fact, seeing that some of them actually read news from a newspaper was surprising!! Websites such as CNN, New York Times, and even Facebook was used to get news.
Getting news from Facebook was unexpected. I thought I was going to be the only one to say that but as I was reading my classmate’s blog, I saw that someone also found out about the death of Osama Bin Laden on it, just as I did. Facebook is beginning to have a lot more purposes now then it previously had. People are beginning to realize everything you can do with it and some people are actually post important things on there. I have seen more news on Facebook than I have ever seen before!!
It’s apparent that we are more focused on literature on the internet than paper form and I’m pretty sure Hedges is looking at all of us with disgust!
Very interesting point about how the "news comes to us" instead of us going to the news! It's crazy how Osama Bin Laden's death was leaked on social networking sites before the official announcement by president Obama!
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