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It comes as no surprise that most of my fellow classmates get their news off the Internet these days. It’s hard to keep up with the news, and to do so one has to find the fastest way possible to check what’s going on in today’s world. All we have to do is open the Internet and just like that we know that a nuclear reactor is omitting radiation in China. There are really only two major differences that I’ve seen from everyone’s blog about where and how they keep up with the news. For starters, clearly everyone’s website of preference for the news is different. Whether is be the NY Times to keep up with the presidential race or Yahoo to hear the who’s who of what’s going on in Hollywood, news sites vary depending on person and sophistication. The other difference I see is whether or not someone keeps up with the news when they are at home an have lost touch now that they are at school. It could be as simple as watching the news with your dad or reading the paper every morning. Now being at school the opportunities to grab the paper on the way to class seem like too much of a hassle.

If Carr read the results of how our class gets our news, I think he would be sitting back in his chair with a huge smile on his face thinking to himself, “I told you so, I told you so, I told you so.” He believes that the Internet is transforming the way we intercept our news. He even says “It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense” aka picking up the Sunday Paper and reading it cover to cover like so many of our parents would. Our class is a perfect example of how the way we read is evolving. Readers are shifting away from print media and more towards electronic based sources. I’m guilty of it too; I'm in one of the furthest rooms from the newspaper stands that are sitting in the main lobby of JMAC and often would rather read the news online than go walk to get a paper. Maybe I’ll start grabbing the paper on the way in instead of being disappointed by how lazy I am becoming.