I am not going to lie and say I keep up with the news at all levels, but I do try to monitor my hometown on a regular basis. I find this news through The Clark County Press website, although this is more than my hometown I like to know what’s going on in the surrounding areas as well. Other than that I really enjoy reading about natural disasters. Not so much because of the incident itself but more for how the communities are able to help each other back up after it happens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When it comes to the news I prefer to use Google as a search engine. As for the news sites I use NBC News, USA Today, and The Clark County Press. As for AI in this digital world I try not to use it as it isn\u2019t always reliable because it pulls from all the information on Google and not just the reliable information. However, using Google as my search engine it will sometimes pop up with an AI overview about things I looked up including news aspects. So when this happens I sometimes glance into it but I always verify that information with my trusted news resources to get the full story and make sure the information given to me was not fake news. Looking into the news I tend to read about it and watch videos. Out of these two formats I prefer watching news videos, so I can feel the emotions of what everyone is experiencing and view clips from the actual event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With news being so interactive these days and making it easier for people to communicate with journalists, I have personally never reached out to them or even committed to a post. I would say that with social media it has made reaching out to them even easier yet. I have had a few instances where social media has led me to news. It was actually facebook that led me to my local news in my hometown. I have also had friends who would share stories to me that they thought I would enjoy. Other than that I haven\u2019t really gotten too far into other ways of finding news like: Bluesky, X, blogs or podcasts. I wouldn\u2019t be against trying them though so all suggestions are welcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Making sure a story is true can be tricky and depend on a lot of things. I like to look at the last updated or posted date. Then I will try and find the author of the piece and see if they are qualified to talk about the information they wrote about. Other than that I look for grammar, spelling and small incorrect information that I would know. Those are the main steps I take to find out if the news stories are correct or not. These are not necessarily the right steps to take but they are just quick ways that I have used to help weed out the fake news. With fake news being everywhere I am sure I have ran into it but I have never thought something is real and it turned out to be fake that I am aware of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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