Wenham, MA- In analyzing our society as a whole, we have developed media so far that anybody with an e-mail account and internet access can go online and initiate or comment on news by creating their own blog or website.
Gordon College students choose to discover their news in different ways, but for the most part most people share the same common source that can be helpful in a search for news, but can also pose a problem when validity and ethics come into play: the internet.
The same common theme amongst Gordon students and professors is that most seem to get quickly reeled in by the news stories that are posted with flashy photos on the front page of "homepages"; such as MSN, AOL, Yahoo, CNN, NPR, or even ESPN.
Of three interviewed students, they all agreed that though blogs aren't always a reliable source. Blogs do make it extremely easy to simply google a subject and read the search results of whatever news story was searched, but the question that always comes into play is the worry of the possibility of bias or infidelity in the blogs that are being viewed.
The three students, between the ages of 19-21 agreed that many websites now specialize in a certain type of news, or at least to consumers they associate the name of a news company with a specificity in a certain kind of news.
The two males that were interviewed both quickly agreed that when anytime they need to find something out about sports, they just go on to ESPN.com, while the female student did also agreed that she has noticed sports journalism being dominated by ESPN and Yahoo Sports.
For political and entertainment news, the students listed a variety of websites, and, interestingly enough, the prospect of consuming news through television or newspaper never even came up in conversation unless they were asked how often they watch the news on TV or read it in a newspaper. Being college students, all of them agreed that there wasn't enough time in the day to be able to sit down and read a newspaper, while two of the students said that television news seems to be very reptitive and biased.
Though the internet may not always be reliable, it appears that the internet has become the primary source for news for some of the busiest people in the world: college students.
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