Given the fact I do not have cable, or a television compatible with the recent digital signals, I do not watch the news or weather. If there is a bad storm at hand, I try to get on the internet to monitor the storm. If the internet goes out, I wait it out, old-school style, with no T.V., or call my mom, who watches the weather for me, even though she lives an hour away.
That being said, I do get my daily dose of news. Every day, I log on to msn or yahoo at least....let's say, about 5 times. This is my main news source. Sadly, it is soft news.
For example, my favorite article of the day so far was 'Surprising uses for your dishwasher'.
I would say that most college students are like this. Our limited funds lead to using internet as our main news source. I would also venture to say that very few of us visit reliable, hard news sites on a regular basis. I will admit, ashamedly, that I know something happened at Fort Hood a few days ago, and that some were killed. However, I have little idea what or to what extent happened.
I say that to say this: our generation is becoming more focused on Facebook and our own happenings than world happenings or political issues. Sad day for our future.
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