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When thinking about how I receive my news on a day to day basis, I realized how much of a generation gap there is between my parents and myself. My dad's habit, almost a ritual, is to come home from work and sit down and watch the news. And I have to admit, I haven't done this in ages. In fact, the only time I would ever do this is when I'm sitting in the same room as my dad as he performs his nightly ritual. No, how I get my news is much different from the ways of yesteryear (I'm not calling you old, dad). The most common way I get my news is from the Internet, and by word of mouth. And I see a problem with one of these methods. By word of mouth, news could be transformed into the version of it most appealing to the speaker, which makes it a much less legitimate source than I would like. A large portion of this word-of-mouth-news-receiving comes from the glamorous Facebook News Feed. Apart from the melodramatic postings of an angsty teen, sometimes you can come across a post about a current event. And even though they might be a little biased, fear not! You're already on the internet, and it takes five seconds to find the true source of the news. This is also why my primary source of news is the Internet. It takes half of a Newton of combined force (estimated, of course) to type in nytimes.com and go bananas. The whole page is filled with articles, and you can pick and choose as you wish and read articles to your hearts content. This makes the news extremely accesible, and I don't see why more people don't do it. If more people would cross the generation gap and use the internet, they would find it a lot easier to keep up-to-date.