The news comes in all shapes and sizes, categories, and from various people. At the national level, I’ve been reading about the NFL’s newest cycle of head coaching interviews. Each year, teams fire their head coaches, and this year is no different, with five openings being had this cycle, with only one being filled as of the time of this writing. It is interesting to see what team reporters have to say about the interviewing process for their respective teams, whether through the group itself or different media outlets. At the state level, I like to pay attention to some of the growing areas around the state as potential places for me to live in the future. Finally, of course, the weather is currently quite a distraction and story with the ongoing snow we’ve seen this week.
For my hometown, Viroqua, Wisconsin, I rely on Facebook or friends and family living there. We have a page on Facebook titled Viroqua Area Folks. Those in and around the area post about the site and sometimes post issues in town. For instance, over the last two or so years, residents in Viroqua have had a highly contested argument about whether the town should allow side-by-sides on the city streets, and I kept up with the results of that case reasonably often and still do to this day when people post about it.
Some of the sites I directly go to via searching the address are now through sporting websites. I sometimes go through some sites that help me through school, such as Grammarly. The area that intrigues me the most is TheDraftNetwork.com because of the content they post. The website posts NFL Draft articles and has their mock draft simulator that I have used for quite some time to try to make the Packers get over the playoff hump. Of course, the one I’ve searched for the most is most likely uww.edu. I use Google.com for my search engines most of the time.
When I consume news, I typically do so through web text because that’s where most of our homework is via canvas, as well as most of the articles and storylines we read daily. There are a few news videos I will watch when something is going on I seem to be interested in or am told about, but generally, I will get my news through articles most of the time. On a few occasions, I had the opportunity to look through some graphics that allowed me to find new information on studies and subjects I hadn’t known about before, but I hadn’t done that in about a year or so.
My favorite way to get news is via reading on the web through the phone or computer screen because it’s so simple to do and gather information. Our phones are full of details once we start working through the internet. It’s easy to see so much information at the tips of your fingers, and you can bookmark informational articles to bring you back to the said article if you get busy while reading it.
I rarely spend time writing comments on comment sections unless it’s people I know pretty well because I know that people are quite opinionated today, so I tend to stay away from those situations because I’m not a political person. My friends will post things, and I’ll generally comment if I do. I have published articles on a sports website and gotten quite a few page clicks because of the types of articles I was doing and the time I was doing them.
I don’t use Facebook as much as I used to, obviously, and a lot of the articles that people post are indeed clickbait or a lot of pieces that indeed are fake news. It’s tough to find trustworthy people these days on social media. I tend to scroll through Twitter quite often, and most of the information I find is through sports. I follow multiple reporters to get up-to-the-minute news and follow many websites such as theathletic.com.
I love listening to podcasts because it gives me something to listen to during work as I’m working at my desk job. Podcasts provide me with new information to diagnose, which is what I want to do as I sit at the desk or work on some homework assignments. A lot of the podcasts I listen to revolve around sports.
It isn’t easy today to find out what information is indeed legit. Today’s media platforms are very opinionated, making it more difficult than ever to trust the people who bring you your news daily. There are plenty of stories and headlines I have thought proper because of the new Twitter checkmark system, that people could buy the checkmark if they wanted to, instead of leaving it to the professionals at work.
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