news

I watch tv - CNN and I also use the internet to look up the specific news that I am interested in. Thanks for asking!

I used to always get my news from the internet but for about the last year I have made a point of watching television - CNN Headline News every morning while I get my kids ready for school. It is a quick way in under 30 minutes to hear all the major headlines and stories and it is entertaining too. After I am done watching that then I do still go to the internet to get the rest of the news that I am interested in. One thing for sure, in this day of the world wide web news is instantaneous. Within seconds of it hitting Reuters everyone knows about it. Good luck with your project at school! Have a great day and happy myLotting!!!

I don't believe that network news is a fading art or source of information. Although it is true that the trend is to put everything on the net for greater access, I believe there will always been a percentage of the populace that gets their news from the TV, as long as that remains an option. I think though, the "powers that be" are trying to do away with TV and get people to solely use the internet for these kinds of things. On my part, I begin my day by watching various news outlets on TV to find out what's happened over night and to see what people are talking about. I also check around midday and then again at night before I go to sleep. I very rarely use the internet as a source of news because I just don't find it a viable source. If I do check the internet, it's pages from CNN or the BBC. Established news outlets that I turn to. I've subscribed to things like the USGS (US Geological Survey) to get news alerts sent to my email daily. That's a great source of straight facts. What I find disturbing about various "news" sources on the net is the fact that most of them are biased. I'm one of those, "Just the facts" type people. I was shocked to read your response to another on this discussion that you were not aware of the "tea party movement". If you are serious about news production, you should be spending all your time viewing whatever sources you can from local to national to international. Studying various formats and determining what actually constitutes "news". Oops. Sorry. Just re-read your original post stating you're taking a course. Ok. Well, you should at least try and watch an hour of local and an hour of national per day on whatever network you affiliate with. A humble suggestion....

We actually don't have any cable television and our tv isn't hooked up into anything, just plugged in, so I really don't watch the news at all for anything. Whatever news I hear is from reading the internet because that's all that I really come into contact with. I think, in a lot of ways, the news on tv is becoming outdated for alot of people that are busy. I know that even if we had cable I'd never get to see the news because I'm always working all the hours that the news comes on, so it's really not convenient for me to be able to sit down and watch the news.

Hi kate like you I get most of my news on the internet. I usually check my email and I have yahoo and aol. both right before I log in I see the top stories. For the past week I have been doing both just to see what is going on in the news. I don't sit through everything. I tape it and watch it when it is over so I can see the stories I am interested in. I am not into politics and other things so when that comes on I just fast-foward. I don't see tv news fading away as for newspapers I rarely look at a paper unless I am looking for a job or moving. I see internet and tv still hand in hand. You can see a lot of the same stories on the internet if you go to ABC.com. Now that I have a computer at home I am on it more and stay in touch that way. I hope you get more responses and get a better idea. I am sure there still are a lot of people who do like to watch the news and don't know a lot about computers.

I watched news every evening for local news.. and i browse to internet for international news.. however, i still find time to read also in the newspaper!