This is for Journalism 347
I am mostly interested in local stories because I like to know what’s going on around me and in my community. I don’t follow any news directly from my hometown, but TMJ4 is what I watch when I’m with my parents. I like reading on ESPN so that’s the site I type when looking for something and the one that appeals to me the most. Usually, I get notifications on my phone from the ESPN app, but if I’m looking for something specific, I use Google. I trust google because it takes the most popular sources and puts them at the top. And mostly when a source is popular, that means it has credibility. I don’t trust AI enough to get fully factual news from it. I know AI isn’t currently developed enough to put fully factual information out, and most sites, like ChatGPT, have warnings to fact check it.
I don’t normally read too many articles, especially because most things I’d be interested in, sports and local news, have videos attached to them. I love to watch videos about news, it makes me feel just a little more connected to the story and it lets me get visuals on things that I might not know what they look like. I also do love interactive experiences when reading news. Sometimes, there are just things that I don’t really care about in an article compared to things that I’m looking for.
I have posted comments on more local, like my high school’s football team’s Instagram, things. I have talked to reporters when I’ve been in Milwaukee or when I was in Chicago and they were shooting something for news. Social media is my main form of news income. TikTok and Instagram are how I really get all my information. For TikTok, it’ll pop up on my for you page, and on Instagram, it shows up in my feed from the accounts I follow. Sometimes, I do rely on my friends to get me information I might not have seen yet by sending me a post about it. I don’t use X or Bluesky. I don’t know what Bluesky is, and X is just something I never really got into using. I don’t read blogs, and I don’t listen to podcasts. I don’t like listening to podcasts because I like looking at something if I’m looking for news. The steps I take to make sure the information I’m looking it is reliable and accurate is taking the headline or main subject within the headline and putting it into another search outlet. For example, if I see something posted on TikTok about an athlete that’s shocking, I’ll look up the athlete’s name or the headline into good and see what stories have been published about it so far by clicking on the news tab. I have read fake stories before and there were times when I was misled. Mostly, if it’s just a fun little fact, or something that isn’t super important to me, I won’t fact check it.
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