Obtaining the News

After reading a lot of my classmates blogs, I came to the overwhelming realization that the Internet plays a major part in the way we receive our news nowadays. Every blog I went to mentioned something about the internet and the use of sites like the New York Times and CNN to obtain their every day news. This is yet another example of how big of an influence the Internet has started playing in our lives. I realized that what seemed to be happening in my life was also occurring in others. I read multiple times of the use of Google to confirm a fact that was heard outside of a reliable source, and the relative ease people have been finding by using the internet to obtain their news rather than using traditional methods such as watching the news on t.v or reading a newspaper. As I was reflecting on all this I began to think about how someone like Hedges would react to the vast amount of reading that was being done on the internet due to news sites, demonstrated by me and my classmates. Certainly he cannot think that a traditional way of obtaining news, like reading a newspaper, would require significantly more literary knowledge than it would take to read the same article online. It is not the paper in our hands that makes us more literate, it is the way we are able to interpret and comprehend things. And could that really be affected via the vessel by which we view the news?