The News for Me

For the past few years, I have always enjoyed staying up to date on what is going on in the world, and in my community. I have always been able to turn on a television and urn the dial MSNBC or Fox news and find out any reports that may interest me. This has always been my major source of information, as my parents normally hogged the newspaper in the morning. However, as I have made my transition to college life, and I have moved away from home I find that I am now lacking my primary source, the TV. I have not been able to purchase one since I have moved in, and for the first few weeks I felt lost without my source. I was not able to find a newspaper readily available, and I finally turned to the one source on hand, the internet. With it, I can select from many different news sites, some biased and others not. I feel that the internet is a great place to find news stories, but a major drawback is the difficulty to read a full article on a computer when there are so many other things available to do on the internet. One can easily get sidetracked by Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, etc. Normally I will skim headlines to find articles that peak my interest and then I will read the first few paragraphs. I hardly ever read through an entire article when I am using a computer, only on occasions of extreme boredom will I go through a full story. I also hear some news from other people around campus. I mostly overhear information from people, and then I will look up the story further online. The ways I used to get my news are a thing of the past, and now I am learning new ways to obtain reports about current events.