Do you read, listen to or watch the news? Did you say "yes"? Nice. Do you do it often? Did you say "yes" again? Even better. Do you have several sources? Also "yes"? If you answered yes for all three questions, you are probably a well-informed news consumer. However if you said "no" for any of them, you may want to improve your habits. Keeping attention what is going on in our world around us is our own responsibility. Needless to say there are many ways to get information. Unfortunately, many of us do not use them. In an article on the website of the New York Times, the author talks about a Pew Research Center's study on how the audience seeks for news online. They found out that 35% of them have a favorite site, 21% of them go on only one site to read news and the rest 57% rely on 2-5 sources. Not to mention that these online sources are all free. Some news sites has been considering though to start some kind of pay system. The research also showed that only 7% of the audience is willing to pay for online news. However the news sites still be satisfied if 5-10% of their readers would actually pay for the news.
As you can see from the numbers, reaching for news is not the most important thing in our lives. If it is a part of your lives at all, what you want to do is to make sure that you get your news from different types of media sources. We were talking on my media class about where we should get our news from. The most significant rule was : "DO NOT WATCH TV NEWS?" Why? Tv news are too limited and constant to give enough proven information about any happenings. In addition it is not accurate enough and might miss some researches.
What are the best ways to get reasonable news? Either newspaper or online. This two can give you more information than the Tv news on one average day. The best online news and newspaper you can look at would be New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Week, The Economist. These papers deal with relevant occurrences we may want to know about. However these focus on the news in the United States. Do not forget that the United States is just one out of the six continents. There are hundreds of happenings in Europe or in Asia that stay outside of these papers' view or interest. A good news consumer does not eliminate other countries. To keep up with Europe you should check out the website of BBC. For news in Asia you may want to look at theasiannews.co.uk
Personally, as a college student I do not really have time to follow the news regularly, but recently I try to spend more and more time to look at different news sites. I remember in the first semester i would talk to my mom or dad and they would tell me if I heard about something that happened in the world, and I would just say "no, I don't have time, and we don't have a Tv in our room." Now I see how crazy answer it was. Now in the second semester I am still a college student but I make time to catch up with the world's news. Oh, and I don't even need a Tv, because I can get more accurate news online.
Have you had any similar experience? Can you say "yes" if I ask you the question? Can you mention two breaking news that happened last week?
Klaudia
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