This week we focused on the news. You can get the news from many different news stations. Cable news covers many different platforms and sides of important things going on in our nation. You can get your news from MSNBC, NBC, FOX, CNN and many other places. However some of it may not always be the truth and depending on the channel can depict it in a liberal or conservative fashion. But the problem with cable news today, is that many people are concerned with the fact that most of these platforms can show fake news. Some news anchors report news that may not be true. The people then will sometimes believe it because the way it is reported may sound true. Some reporters can be trusted but sometimes others cannot. Being sure that you look up facts on what is being reported can be important because it is not illegal for them to say something that isn’t true. I personally am not someone that watches the news much anymore. I have found the news to be very depressing. Most of the time on the news you see something about a mass shooting or something bad happening around the world. I also do not watch much anymore because it is usually just a debate over politics and people yelling at each other on the screen. Very rarely is there something good that is happening but it seems like even when there is they find a negative light on it. I have the app for the Washington Post and the New York Post on my phones, but the only time I find myself checking it is when I get an alert about something.

This week we also watched two episodes of the Newsroom. I have seen the pilot episode in Social Media and Society before, but the second one was new to me. I still very much enjoyed the pilot episode. The makers of the Newsroom really put so much work into the show to show how reporting of the news takes a lot of work and can at times be very frustrating. The second episode we watched I found very interesting. Will and Mac were faced at the beginning of the episode finding out that their rates had took a major dip the week before. They are then forced to cover the Casey Anthony trial instead of looking at major things like the debt ceiling vote. Will also hires the guy Mac cheated on him with to write a story on the Newsroom 2.0. We even find out about a whistleblower too and a congressmen who had an affair. Everyone is faced with a great amount of stress in this episode and try to handle it as best as they can. With this episode it is obvious that the news can get many stories but has to choose which ones they want to report and can be the best for ratings. They may not always make the best decisions but they have to take into mind what the country wants to see.