Thursday, February 3, 2011
Artifact #1
This article states a very good point on how reading the newspaper online has become so popular and how the internet is a dominant source of information for people today. I prefer reading the news online; however, if I find myself with nothing to do when the news is on or I happen to be in the room where the news is on, I will watch it because I find it interesting. I do find watching the news interesting, but I don't ever seem to catch it on time or, honestly, I would sometimes rather watch something else. I believe that the main reason for the decrease of news watchers is convenience. Some people may find themselves busy when the news is on; in the So since morning they may be getting their kids ready for school, in the afternoon they are probably at work, later in the day they might be cooking dinner, and at night they may be putting the kids to bed. So, since they may miss the news on TV, these adults or even teenagers may look online for this information instead. Numbers are going to continue to increase because computers are going to soon take over every age group and every generation will be solely dependent on computers. This article was pretty interesting and shocking at the same time because I definitely did not know that the numbers were as high as they are.
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I feel the same way. Many people use the internet because of its convenience. It is so easy to track down a specific topic and get to the details instead of waiting for the television to specify what may be going on. Its also pretty hard to get away from the news online. With sites like Twitter and Yahoo current news topics are constantly trending which makes you want to know what is going on. Overall the internet has more information and a variety of sources. It also makes the news a little more entertaining.
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