Similarities

As I read through the sources that other people use to obtain their news I can easily find one reoccurring theme; the internet. We, as college students almost all own a laptop or other computer, and have free access to the internet on campus, whether it be wirelessly or on a library computer. I also found that hearsay is another main way that we acquire information, we hear about a story while we are walking around, or from a friend, and then do further research on the topic. The internet has completely changed the way we get news, while not all go to the same source; it is an everyday stop for all college students. We can get news through our email accounts, Facebook pages, or at specific news sites. Some of these, “so-called,” news websites are extremely biased and will do anything to dish out the bad information or gossip on the latest celebrity, and others, such as the Onion, concoct entirely false stories altogether. People flock to these biased sites because they give out information that people want to hear, the regular American wants to know that every celebrity has problems just like them, and some even more severe. Personally, I do not visit these gossip sites because, I feel that, for one, the information in them really has no effect on my life whatsoever, and I really just don’t care about them. Most of the news that is important to us students will eventually get around to us whether we seek it or not, we will overhear someone talking, see a new status or Facebook or Twitter, or simply just receive an email about it. Sometimes it is easiest not to seek out the news at all.