As someone who doesn’t pay too much attention to the news, I still find it hard to avoid. With platforms such as X/Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, etc, national and international news is always being thrown in your face. For the most part, the news that I’m interested in is local to whatever area I am in whether it’s back in Illinois or here in Whitewater. I think local news, for the most part, is the most important sort of news. It lets you know what is going on in your area, and keeps you informed about local government. Another form of news I follow is sports. I follow ESPN and Sportscenter on Instagram and X/Twitter to stay up to date on the latest and greatest sports news. I get most of my news from Instagram when it comes to national and international news, and then popular sports sites such as Sportscenter and ESPN for my sports news. I tend not to search these sites up through Google, or really any other search engine because of the simplicity of having these apps on my phone. I can just open an app, usually Instagram, and find exactly what I’ve been looking for in an instant.
When it comes to news and finding my information, I never tend to rely on AI. When it comes to AI I never thought about using it to find my news. A lot of the news I consume is from social media. This contains clips from actual live news broadcasts, articles to read, audio clips, along with photos of what takes place in these articles. This allows me to have a wide variety of the news I consume from local news to international. Most of the sports news I see is pictures of tweets from insiders and reporters from all over the NHL and NBA.
Some people ask questions about what’s happening on social media, but I don’t usually get involved with the comment sections. The comment sections on social media are either all jokes, or people that want to put their own opinion out there which leads to arguments, and unnecessary comments. I have reached out to news anchors and reporters, but that was only to tour stations and ask questions to them about the industry. I toured WMTV in Madison, and spoke to a few of their anchors and reporters. One anchor in specific I spent the day with and was asking questions about how he got to where he is. He gave me a lot of great advice and hope for my future in the field of journalism. He also told me about how blogs are a great way to get started and get your name out there. I just recently uploaded a blog to the UWW site to try to get into that and talk about things important to me that are hopefully important to others. I don’t read blogs myself, but I frequently listen to podcasts. I don’t listen to informational podcasts or political podcasts unless Joe Rogan can be considered that. I spend most of my time listening to comedians discuss whatever comes to their mind.
I love staying up to date on news such as sports and local news, but I tend to steer clear of the political news. I know a lot of those news sites are swayed more to one side or another, and it makes it hard to find reliable information. I will continue to stay up to date on sports news, and local government, and maybe in time I will find my way to be more interested in politics.
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