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NEWS
Where do you get your news?
From printed newspapers, from television or radio, weekly news magazines,
or – as more and more people are doing – from online news services which
collect articles from many different publications, some world-wide sources and
even video clips, which can be subscribed to free of charge?
Did you know that the Declaration of Independence was
really signed on July 2, 1776 and that the reason we celebrate it on the 4th
is because that was the day that the news was “published” by town criers in
the public squares of all the town, villages and hamlets of the new United
States? It most certainly did not
happen all at once either, as the news must have traveled, perhaps by courier,
from town to town.
Can you imagine such a thing happening today?
Whatever the source of our news – and we all have personal preferences
– the one thing that we demand is that our news be fresh and current.
TV and radio even have announcements about “breaking news” in which
it is clear that the correspondents have very little real information but are
wetting our appetites so that we will stay tuned, or tune in again, to hear
“the rest of the story.”
All of this abundance and timeliness of news and the
ability to make choices about them create the problem of having to decide which
correspondent or which source is most likely to give us the “real scoop.”
Do you want to find a source, which you feel, is objective or do you want
to receive your news with a point of view?
Local news, national news, world news, sports news.
Which do you read first and which do you skip altogether?
Choices, choices! In a free-press democracy we have a lot of them to make
as good citizens we gave an obligation to make the best choices we can.
Websites
The New York Times
USA today online
newspaper
The Reading room list of free online
newspapers.
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