Breaking news! This week in class we went into depth about news, and the actions that lead up to how the news is told. This topic is very intriguing to me, because it conveys how certain news broadcasters either spread propaganda, or cover stories that are meaningless to the grand scheme of things. An example of something like this would be, in previous week of class, how the news was non stop broadcasting Justin Bieber’s arrest, although there were much larger stories to be told to the public. This just goes to show the real objectives of certain TV news providers. They would rather focus on gossip than actual news. Another example of this would be from today’s class in an episode of newsroom. In this episode the Atlantic Cable News (ACN) the news team wanted to go in a direction where they reported real news that people should hear. However, they lost 50% of they’re viewers because they weren’t reporting the hot gossip of the Casey Anthony story. Yes this story was a big deal, but it shouldn’t have been broadcast on every news station when there were other more important stories on the horizon. This story was strictly to get ratings up because in the cable news world ratings mean everything. The sad truth of the matter is that exaggerated/entertaining news will be told, rather than the boring cold hard facts.

In the first episode of newsroom, ACN was facing inner conflict on weather to follow up and report a story, that most thought wasn’t a big deal, on the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The problems that were faced was that the newsroom wasn’t set on this story and thought they should go into a different direction. I thought it was a unique experience to watch how news broadcasters actually went about to finding the right story to report. In the end it turned out the code yellow report actually turned into a code red and Will McAvoy proceeded to nail the broadcast.

I personally have been getting updated and watch the news more often since being in this class. I get notified on my phone by a few news apps, and actually have been physically watching the news with coffee in the morning. But my main source would have to be twitter. The top 10 most important things on twitter helps me understand whats trending around the world at this current moment. I was first informed of the presidential impeachment rumors on twitter and then I proceeded to follow up on it through cable news. This is a story that simply cannot be ignored, and if I’m able to get some facts on twitter I will continue to use it for news.