Reading through all of my classmates’ blogs from a few days ago it seems like for the most part news is obtained through the use of the Internet. In our current collegiate environment it seems unrealistic that a student will read the newspaper or watch the 11 o’clock news every night. When using the Internet the news is a click away and is constantly being updated. No longer do we have to wait days to find out what is going on over sees.
For the most part it seems like the students in our class rely on the same sources for news. The most commonly viewed sites seemed to be yahoo, cnn, and New York times. I think that the amount of news we view is pretty significant because it is apparent that for the most part people are keeping up of their current events.
I think Hedges and Carr would not be surprised at all by the trend that appears to be prevalent within our class. Hedges and Carr argue that the technology we are immersed in has changes the way that we read. Looking at the articles and stories that are on CNN and NYT they are short and often supplemented with pictures and videos. The biggest example of Hedges and Carr’s theory is yahoo news. Hedges and Carr argued that our over uses of technology has made up more easily distracted and constantly craving an ever changing environment. With yahoo news one can scroll through all of the news stories, reading the 5 word headlines with out actually reading the article. How many of us can actually say we do not do this multiple times a day. It provides the fix to our addiction. Yahoo provides and image and an enticing blurb and soon after you read it, you become bored and move on to the next story. If you do end up reading the story, for the most part they are short, a few pages at the very most. Almost always ether videos and/or pictures supplement them. Yahoo news is a perfect example of Hedges and Carr’s opinions.
Liked the part about just reading the headlines. We all do it when scrolling down a page. Usually if I have any prior knowledge about the story that the headline triggers I'll skip it because my head is telling me, "You already know something about that don't waste your time." It's funny how if we took the small amount of time to actually read it we would all be that much more educated.
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