Sunday, February 3, 2013

     The news business today is incredibly versatile in its delivery system to the public. While the news used to be confined to the network television channels and the daily paper, people today can read up on the latest news or watch some form of a news program at virtually any moment during the day. The rise of the Internet has led to a surplus of news outlets including blogs, facebook, twitter, Yahoo, Google, and the list goes on. Despite these endless possibilities of sources and outlets for people to get their news from, we tend to only check one or two of these outlets. This is because each outlet for news caters to a certain demographic, a phenomenon of the 21st century. A hard right republican may only read Fox news, a far left democrat may only read MSNBC. An elderly person may only read AARP, while a teenager may only read MTV or VH1 news. Personally, I typically gather my current events and news from two, sometimes three outlets. The first and foremost, most common and frequent news site which I read is the Comcast homepage. Perhaps this is because I grew up with this as my Internet provider and therefor my homepage, but multiple times a day I read the news via this outlet. Almost daily as well is the New York Times. I browse the different articles and whatever catches my attention I read, usually politics and sports. Occasionally, maybe two or three times a week, I watch television shows such as the Colbert Report and The Daily Show for news. Although these are comedy show on a comedy network, they present news in an easier, more accessible format than many other television news stations. With these three outlets for my news, I like to think that I stay relatively current on the news and events that are happening around me.

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