I should have expected it but I didn’t. Apparently, most of my classmates get most of their news from their parents or friends. Almost all of them were passive news audience meaning that they let news come to them, rather than going after it. This holds the same for me. I follow my classmates approach when it comes to news and how it is absorbed. My parents usually bring up news that really affects us and so it is in actuality a little more important than a lot of the news that doesn’t. Also, from my parents, comes a stream of opinions and viewpoints that I’m used to and expect so I’m very comfortable of talking with them and formulating my own opinions and ideas.
The other major source of news for my classmates is through the web or TV. While this may seem to be active news-gathering, it is in reality not. This is also my other major source of news. My homepage (Yahoo), face book are chiefly my sources of my information on the web. I see them when I skim past them and sometimes, if they are interesting enough, I look up the story. For example, I saw a facebook status that was my first indication of the boy in the balloon story. I did nothing until I saw the same story put up in Yahoo News. This tickled my curiosity enough to make me get up and do some active-news searching for this story.
Trying to relate this generation’s sources of news and civic literacy is quite simple. What Hedges and Carr talk about is quite evident in the world. We see what is brought to us – simply. There is not much in depth news analysis of news going on with this generation and our news-gathering just deals with the surface of in-depth stories that are forcibly shown to us.
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