Week 6: Topic 1
Topic 1:
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I get my local news from Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram, and my friends. I do not watch TV very much and I never read the
newspaper, so these are my main forms I use for news. News is pretty important
to my daily life because I always like being caught up in what is going on
around me. I do not like being left in the dark with the news. The accounts I
use for news on social media is usually hashtags that are most popular on that
day. Lets say on twitter it says #taxes is tending across the country, and I
can click on that hashtag and read tons of different articles on what the news
is for that hashtag. On Facebook I scroll through and will see many different
account posting random news reports that are interesting to me. The hardest one
to answer is how do I know that the news I am getting is a 100% accurate,
because honestly I do not know. I just believe what I read and hope no one is
trying to scam me or cause fake reports. It takes too much time to go into
every news report and site to see how accurate it is. It sounds lazy and
dangerous potentially reading fake news and not checking it, but that’s what
majority of people do on social media.
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I do not pay for any subscriptions online for
news sources. I have never seen a need to do so. Why spend money on news
sources that you can see for free on social media. Personally I do not know any
news sources that I would apply to because it is not the biggest deal to me to
keep up with all of the news all the time.
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I believe I am being informed a 4 with all of
the news I see off of social media. I use SportsCenter for my sports news, and
that seems to be pretty accurate, I use Twitter for trends of news, such as
what is going on today that is effecting everyone else, I see older people post
stuff on Facebook to give me info on the news around my community, and I use my
parents as word of mouth of other news issues around the world. All of these
sources to me seem to be really accurate in their news reports. It is important
to me to be well informed about what is going on. I do not want to be lead into
believing false stuff and lose track of what’s real and what’s fake around me. The
most recent news report that I found out on twitter, that affected me was the
death of Linkin Parks lead singer. It was the leading trend on twitter, so I
clicked on it and found out he passed away. That is something I do not see
being made up. That is a news report that was true that was posted on social
media.
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