I read magazines like TIME, online news articles, and oftentimes through social media. Facebook now has a trending news section and many of my friends are pretty politically aware so they will share articles as well
@cobrat oh yeah that’s definitely true. when i first started getting serious about following international news (around middle school/early high school) i was a bit overwhelmed by how many bombings there were going on and all of this war going on all over the place. i really did try to learn more about those regions though but it really is depressing. even just local news would become depressing when you read about car accidents and stuff. that was when i used to read probably every article that came my way though.
i dont know if it’s because im older and have gotten used to all the bad news or if it’s because i tend to ignore it more but i dont really get affected that way anymore. plus im in college now so that also might be why. you have to learn you can’t possibly know the full story of everything happening all over the world at once. and there might not always be a good and bad side to a situation.
so to those parents who are looking for their kids to read the news, make sure you warn them about this. don’t become addicted to information. in the end it is a consumption of media. especially since us young folk get our news from our phones most of the time, that can really tie into technology addiction. waking up and checking your phone first thing in the morning, going to the bathroom and reading an article, checking your phone all the time, not just to check if you have notifications but when you casually decide to read news articles or whatever. we become so reliant on this excess information that we never have time to form our own opinions and thoughts on things. what good is consuming information if we don’t do anything with it? you have to exercise your own thinking. don’t just stick to reading as much as you can (which isn’t bad, necessarily, but if constantly reading loads of perspectives and opinions prevents you from forming your own thoughts and allowing yourself to truly absorb the information [not just reading stuff because you’re bored while walking to class and it sounded interesting and intellectual but then you forget about it 5 minutes later], then you should try to limit that consumption).
@dyiu13 oh yes ive tried that too, before! works great. tbh maybe it’s cuz i grew up poor/am still poor/recession but i’ve never really felt as if im /supposed/to pay for news…? i see lots of people here talking about their subscriptions and tbh ive just never been around people who actually pays for that stuff when you can get it for free on the internet. i still don’t really understand what added value you get… i suppose it’s good to support stuff, and i guess ive ought to thank them for keeping such publications in business then lol.
It used to be that advertising and sometimes subscriptions paid for news-gatheting operations. Now, I can’t even imagine how the journalists and others in the news business get funded. There seems to be so little advertising connected to news “publishing” ( whatever format it takes now).
BBC news, by far the most non-biased news. I even look at it for US news. Yahoo news the worst. Can never even tell if it’s a news story. NY Times also very good.
My D16 will have access to our Washington Post Kindle subscription on her phone and iPad if she wants to read it - if I suggest that she read the news daily she definitely won’t do it. She had to read a newspaper daily (or at least one article daily) for her US Gov’t class this past year, but I’m not sure if it’s a habit she’ll continue (however, she definitely won’t have Poli Sci classes in college). She may go back to just clicking on whatever is trending on Twitter. Sigh.
My son has student subscriptions to the NYT and the Economist. He also reads FiveThirtyEight. He just heard Nate Silver speak at the Commonwealth Club.
We still have paper copies of NYT & WSJ delivered. Older son reads paper while eating breakfast but most news is pushed to their phones, AFAIK. Everyone uses online access to read NYT. I do not like the WSJ online version at all.
I like The Skimm and Next Draft emails. Skimm arrives in the morning and Next Draft arrives right around the time the stock market closes, but is not financial news.
http://nextdraft.com/ I had never heard of Next Draft. Will check it out. Thanks!
BBC unbiased===LOL
There is nothing in journalism that is unbiased, imho. I hope my kiddo will learn that in college (if she hasn’t already learned it from me). 