Obtaining News

Normally, I am not particularly outgoing when it comes to obtaining news. I don’t really find news, news finds me. There are a variety of ways that news will find me. I could come across it while surfing the web, listening to the radio, watching tv, or through other people.

When it comes to which of these is most prominent, I would probably say that through surfing the web is the way that I obtain most of my news. I do not usually directly go to a news website to learn about the news. When I come across something interesting whether through yahoo, facebook, youtube, or whatever, I may search to get more details. I also learn a lot of my news from other people. When someone tells me something that happened, I may either get the rest of the story from that person or someone else, or I may go use the internet to get the rest of the story. Considering that I do not watch very much tv at all, that is a very slim piece of the pie chart. Now that I am in college and I do not have normal access to a car, I do not listen to the radio much anymore either. When I lived at home, I would listen to the radio nearly every time I would be in the car. That was one way that I heard about different things going on. So I would say that the majority of my news is from either the internet or through other people.

I will admit that I should look into the news more often. It is definitely beneficial to be in touch with the rest of the world, and that is something that I am generally left out of. Hopefully, through the course of the second half of this semester, I will be able to get into the habit of finding news myself, rather than having news find me.