This week we watched two episodes from “The Newsroom” we watched the pilot. “The Newsroom” is about a news group who endeavors to make a news show that reports the news in a moral and sensible manner. They take genuine, newsworthy situations from our reality as they’re occurring and report on them as though they were a real news station that pursued normal and good rules, in a gnawing analysis of our famous press and a cunning obscuring of craftsmanship and reality. Will McAvoy, the news anchor is wanting to carry something new to television. His producer, Mckenzie MacHale, who was once impractically engaged with the new boss wouldn’t like to have her staff think about it. The show begins with Will McAvoy, played by Jeff Daniels, responding to questions at a nearby school. Furthermore, in the wake of utilizing a little humor to get passed questions he would not reply to, he at last snaps when the host requests his supposition if America is the greatest country in the world. Not only does he lash out at a college girl, but he also lashes out on the country that turns his career for the worse. Mr McAvoy is the head at Atlantis Cable News (ACN) and when he comes back to work after his lash out, he soon realizes the majority of his staff is gone from the newsroom. As he examines what occurred with the head administrator of the system, Charlie Skinnern understands that his manager contracted another official maker for the show without allowing Will to meet her. The new official maker is Mackenzie McHale, who has a had a relationship with Will in the past that turned sour. It doesn’t take Will long for him to be totally angry with the entire quandary. Yet he needs to confront realities that she will help spare his show after his outburst. The Internet has brought about profound and rapid changes in the structuring, delivery, and economics of news media.

News that is delivered immediately has become such a norm to our society. The pressure for immediate delivery increases the tension between factual accuracy and “getting there first” in news reporting. People have access to get instant news for free online, this has given people access to any news at any point in time. As stated in our book, Understanding Media, the internet has officially replaced the tv and radio as the main source for information.  When we look at instagram live streams, posts, and Twitter the news is being circulated within minutes of occurrence. In my eyes we have to be conscious of the news and media and do our own research.

Personally, I enjoy keeping up with the news. Cable news is often flawed, inaccurate, and heavily opinionated. To me the news should be more realistic and straight to the point. There is no reason for these stations to have all this arguing and sugar coating everything that is discussed. I believe staying up to date with the news is an effective and beneficial way to have lots of knowledge about things that are currently happening in our world, good or bad. We face a lot of news everyday and the news itself cannot even handle it. With everything going on with the election there is different sides of the story that you hear depending on the broadcasting station you are listening to. Normally i get most of my news on social media, especially on Twitter. Twitter has this feature where it has the top ten important things going on that day, most of the time it is on news that is happening in our world. Getting my news right from my phone has become a lot more efficient to get news out to people. I think it is ignorant for people who completely avoid the news, though I feel as citizens we should know what is going on. There is a very fine line between not wanting to know and tuning it out.

Question to the class: What online sources do you use to get you breaking news from?