Desperately I yearned to hear that I was not alone. Could it be true that others, too, don’t watch the news as much as I? Haven’t we all heard that only the uncultured do not watch the news? Frankly, I do not in the least believe that garbage. How can we say we are cultured just because we read/watch the news? We cannot.
No, actually, I feel like the news has become almost an inconvenience to us. After reading some of the blogs in the class, it has registered in my mind that each of us receives news, but also that we each have a unique way to attain the news, apart from everyone else. Some people are quick to go to their favorite website. Some hear about the news when it is not new, but rather from word of mouth. Some read the newspaper. And some watch the news on their TV. However, no matter how much we try to get the news just as it is happening, we can never fully see it happening. Actually, no matter where we get our news, that news has been broadcasted and therefore has the potentiality to be jaded. If you read your article from the internet, someone with a brain and opinions wrote it. If you watch the news on TV someone has told you about the news through their point of view.
Am I saying that it is all a conspiracy, and that the FCC is controlling our minds to see what they want us to see? No. But, what I am saying is that we all are in a desperate search for the true news, but, in reality, we may never find it.
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I agree with you that there is no such thing as objective news. But I do think there is fair, professional, and accountable news. That's seems to be the closest we can come to "true" news.
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