This week in class, we heavily discussed the media’s effect on news and information. By doing so, we watched two episodes of The Newsroom.

“We Just Decided To” was the pilot of The Newsroom, which was the first episode we watched during class. In the opening scene, news anchor Will McAvoy, is asked by a college student why America is the greatest country in the world. Being a well-respected and unproblematic man, he answered truthfully, saying it is not. He went on and said he believed in the country America used to be.We longer have our Golden Age. After the aftermath of his comment, he returned back to his job to find that most of his staff left and his new executive producer is his ex-girlfriend. To sum everything up, him and his team, had to work together to cover the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

“The Blackout, Part 1: Tragedy Porn” was the last episode we watched during class. We discovered the news team lost half of their ratings due to the increase of ratings to another news network. For the ratings to improve, the news team had to cover the Casey Anthony case, which was about a woman who was accused of murdering her three year old daughter, Caylee. But by covering this story, it jeopardized many other worthy stories that could have been covered.

Personally, I enjoy keeping up with the news. I believe staying up to date with the news is an effective and beneficial way to have lots of knowledge about things that are currently happening in our world, good or bad. Especially, the fact that our country has never been so cruel and harsh to each other, it is so important to know about every little detail. We are facing a shit ton of news which the news itself cannot even handle. The impeachment on Donald Trump has been something every single person living here in the United States of America should care about. Whether you are in favor of him or not, this is not going away. We cannot pretend this not happening!

I am not going to lie, I get most of my news on social media, especially on Twitter. Twitter has this feature where it has the top ten most important things going on that day, and most of the time it is only silly things. Getting my news from Twitter is better than not receiving news at all.