Everyone Else and I

After reading so many blogs of my classmates information started to get blurred together. We all have remarkably similar sources of acquiring news. I seemed that the largest source was social media. Because of it the news it literally thrown into our faces. The things people post on our news feed help keep us aware of what is going on and keeps us aware. A common thing is to look at a status in response to an event and research it after the fact of learning about it. The New York Times was a very popular source among the class, and I must agree. I believe it has shown to be one of the lesser biased papers in America today. TV was another outlet of news whether it be Fox, CNN, or even comedy shows like the Daily Show and The Colbert Report. The one thing a minority of my classmates did was read a physical. I would say that I am a part of the majority of people who just do not read a newspaper. We do everything online which allows us to have access to more information. In regards to civic literacy I believe as long as people are reading respected articles it does not matter whether it is online or on a piece of paper. I’m sure Sullivan would agree to the idea of people going online for news, especially blogs. I just think people have to be careful of what they believe on social media sites and blogging. False news is rampant on sites like Facebook and Twitter. People new to learn the difference between news and gossip.