Where We Get Our News
Now that we have discussed news in class, what is your favorite source for news? Why?
posted by JLBinChicago @ 8:29 AM
Monday, October 22, 2007
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My favorite sources of news are ones that present it in a humorous fashion. For important daily news, I learn just as much from watching Jay Leno than the nightly news, and I enjoy it a lot more. For complex issues, I probably have learned more about them from South Park than from news magazine type shows. For example, I had a very vague idea of what the issues behind Stem Cell Research were until I saw the South Park episode about it. Probably not the best source of news, but it definately is my favorite.
Personally, I also like the sources that are funny becuase these are able to hold my attention better. Especially with political issues, it is hard for me to stay focused on the news because it is dry most of the time. I like the colbert report and the today show because even though they may not be 100% reliable since you can sometimes not tell what is a joke, I can still stay interested and atleast learn something.
I would have to agree, humor does keep an interest. in my opinion not only humor keeps your attenchion although topics the effect the individual and one that had effected me that was on the news tonight was the fact that a Stevenson student has been missing. knowing that i could have known him and finding out that he is my best friends girlfriends friend had sparked my interest to know more and the political background of the story is that he comes from a concervitive family although his ideas were liberal and his parents and him viewed almost everything differently so having a motive to run away has increased his chances of being away for a long period of time. also south park and family guy are to sources that make fun of the American government and the Jay Leno show is something that everyone can relate to although people might not like his humor. so having a favorite type of news i think is more that it relates more to the individual then the context the news is placed into.
Finally Bouch you posted again!
I agree with Wolfy. Satire is one of the most effective ways of making a point. The Daily Show, South Park, and others uses it to show why a ridiculous argument doesn't make sense. This is virtually Steven Colbert's entire purpose. Satire is what allows the Flying Spaghetti Monster to completely dismiss the idea of teaching creationism (intelligent design) in public schools.
Now besides these types of shows, I think that network news like ABC, CNN, and especially FOX are BS. Some of the more manipulative ones will give their viewers an overload of information, which prevents the viewer from understanding the issue and developing a reasonable opinion. When they aren't overloading their viewers with information, they are talking about celebrities or previewing an upcoming segment. But stations like Fox do get good ratings because of their patriotic banners and good-looking reporters.
There are some people who will complain that the news is too negative. If you believe that, then you have to ask what the purpose of the news is. Is it to entertain us? Happy news can do that very well. But happy news means you are avoiding the problems that the news should be raising awareness about so they can be fixed. Local news probably comes across this problem more often because they love to cover the firefighters who helped the old lady get her cat down from the tree. This might be nice, but more pressing issues should be the focus. National news trying to cover more happy stories is not a move in the right direction.
I was going to have a paragraph on what's wrong with Fox. But I don't need to since former Fox employees will tell you themselves in this documentary called outfoxed. If you watch Fox you can figure it out for yourself. To start, there's a clip here that shows them smearing Al Gore for winning the Nobel Peace Prize by comparing him to Yasser Arafat and "that crazy Jimmy Carter."
All of this is why I prefer to get my news from the Internet. Social news websites like digg.com list articles that users submitted from all different types of sources. Such websites take the power out of the hands of big media giants and into the hands of bloggers like Bouch. The Internet allows stories ignored by the media to become prevalent. And you don't have to sit through advertisements before getting to the content online like TV forces you to do.
Personally, I get my news on the Internet. I think it is one of the most efficient ways since you can read the interesting articles in your opinion at your time, without commercials (without ads - make your browser block ads! (Adblock Plus)). News on the TV is very anticlimactic - "wait for the commercials to finish to find YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE". I don't have that much patience and thus feel that TV news are for the elderly who have much time and are computer illiterate. On the other hand, Indian News is dense and to the point. Many of the Indians watch news as it is their only link to the outside, foreign world. In this case, the TV news is very informative.
I watch the Colbert Report and the Daily show. Even though some consider such shows as news, I don't. They implant a certain opinion in the watchers, which might not be what the watcher might think. News is supposed to be pure information without opinion, but these shows adds in the opinion which takes away the label of news and just gives it the title of good entertainment.
I don't have any one specific source for news, but if I want to see what's going on, I'll go over to google news, which basically takes headlines from different news sites and puts it in one place. I like to see the different perspectives in each site and how many times I can read the same press release or AP report.
If I want to enjoy the news: daily show. From reading above, it's almost scary how many people rely on this for news.
If I actually want to learn about something that is going on in the world from what I feel is an unbiased source: BBC or NBC news.
I'm not a huge fan of local news, it always feels too negative. In general the news and media (not video games) have kind of desensitized us to war and violence. Almost everyday we hear that several soldiers die and tend to shrug it off. I feel local news just skims the surface of emotion and coverage.
one more thing...
found an interesting clip of comic George Carlin (this is appropriate, don't worry) discussing how ridiculous the media has become by shining any kind of light on stories like "Dumbledore is gay".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFOAz4atPIA&eurl=http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/10/24/olbermann-interviews-george-carlin/
My favorite sources of news are ones on the internet. I feel its easily more excessible because i'm always on the internet. You can get the news on the internet anytime. Not like on tv and the radio when its shows only a certain time. Sometimes news articles let you post blogs and talk to other people about the issues.
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