For the most part, I get my news and information from the Internet. When I'm not too busy, I like to read opinion sites like National Review and IBD. I also print out articles from Commentary and New Criterion sometimes which has articles ranging from political to academic topics. When I'm really busy, I don't usually read political sites since reading them does take an hour or so. I do check orienteering blogs regularly since orienteering articles are short and I can pick and choose how much I want to read. If I want to find out something about, for instance, UofL or the Louisville Orchestra schedule, I almost always use a search engine like Google or the website's search engine. I also check the TV news sites for the weather forecast regularly. In summation, I get most of my news and information from the Internet.
I used to read the New York Times and Wall Street Journal in print, but we don't get them anymore. We would get them from the my Dad's law firm for free one day later, but his current firm doesn't let him take them home. It was sort of like recycling! I generally skipped over to the Arts and Fashion pages, then went back and read a few stories that looked interesting. We still get National Review and Orienteering North America in print.
I've watched The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS regularly in the past, but I've hardly watched it this semester since I have classes or homework at that time of day. I've noticed that the show has changed since the 2008 election. Instead of having world news and news of the day then discussions, interviews and stories, the show jumps straight into discussions, interviews, and stories and has very little world and national news. In other words, the show has become more opinionated and less informative. I have not liked this change. I don't watch another news programs because we don't have cable and the network news is somewhat dull and limited.
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I wasn't aware that News Hour had changed that way. A recent media bias study by a prof. at UCLA (I think it was UCLA) found News Hour to be the least bias of all major broadcasts.
ReplyDeleteI think the change has been not the stories themselvs so much as what is not on the show. There is a lot less world and national news now than say a few years ago. I've also noticed that there's not nearly as much diverse opinions in the discussions. I could be wrong about this, but it's what I've observed.
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