Today's News

this is being published in all caps for some reason, please disregard it. there is no extra enthusiasm that i'm trying to add.

Where do I get my news? Where do you get your news? Teens these days are, for the most part, very similar in relation to where we get our news. As we all know by now, the internet plays a major role in where we get our news. For good reasons too, its much faster and probably quicker. I’ll even admit that if I want to know what’s going on back in Chicago ill just go on the web and check it out. That doesn’t go to say that I am a strictly internet newsreader. I love reading the paper; it makes me feel older than I am, its also easier than reading off a screen in my opinion. It also lets me choose what I want to see first. When you log onto the New York Times website what comes up on the home page is the top stories. For example the top headline right now is “Egypt to Try 19 Americans in Inquiry Over Use of Funds” but if I picked up the paper I probably wouldn’t want to read that first. I would probably flip right to the sports section because it’s Superbowl Sunday and read about who has the advantage in tonight’s game.

When I’m at home, and have the availability of my car, one of the preset radio stations is talk radio. I’ll give my brother all the credit for this because it was his car before mine and I just kept it because I’m too lazy to change it, and to be honest there are very few good radio stations left between the oldies and that. When I flip through the radio, I always find myself listening to it for a few seconds longer than if it were a song because I'm listening to what the hosts are saying. It’s how I found out Clarence Clemmons had a stroke before he died. I will say one way I have not gotten my news since it was homework to watch in high school, was television. For some reason I cant watch people talk about the news. It’s usually on after many hit TV shows and I am the first one to grab the remote in my family and either change the channel or turn it off. I think the reason I can’t watch someone talk is because its visually unappealing. Although the weather features the most color and movements, I’d rather flip to the back page of the Metro section in the Tribune to see the seven day forecast. People these days are more inclined to watch something exciting, and the news just doesn’t fulfill that requirement more of the time anymore. From Johnson Hall, I’m Sam Blinderman. You stay classy, Denver.