# How often do you read the paper or watch the news on TV? How important is it for you to keep up with current events?
Write a short essay of about 400 words
about the below stated issue: news and you.
In these modern days,
technologies had replaced the way of people getting daily news. Of
course there's still the old printed media but the new generation had preferred
the modern ways than the old traditional one. I also can be included in the new
generation but since I was born as Y-gen, I still prefer the old traditional
media than the new tech when I want to read some news.
In my childhood days, I really like to read news and update myself
with recent events that had been happening around me. This interest of mine
continues until I've finished high school. When I've entered university life,
keeping updating myself with news are no longer important and interests me.
I've realized that, I gradually lost my interest with the news as I grow up.
The main reason would be, as a university student, I rather sit in my room facing
the pc's or laptops than going outside,so that I'm more focused on getting my
assignments done and preparing for the finals.
As a university student, I'm
not concerning myself with the news and does not have interest in knowing it.
But, sometimes, I do check out the news when I really don't have anything else
to do. The kind of news I've check out are usually on the television and
newspaper. When I'm online, sometimes I've checked yahoo online for any recent
news since whenever I wanted to open my mail, I must stop by the main page
first. That's why I've read the news.
Other than that, with the
recent technologies such as the creation and existence of smartphones, news can
reached people in just a minute and thousand times faster than before. The
existence of internet also made the network connection goes worldwide making
the communication between people much easier and convenient. So it doesn't
really a shocking matter if a freshly baked news in one place are getting
spread worldwide in just a minute. The modern technologies can make it happens.
And In these modern days, people are obliged to have handphones each for their
own. But eventhough with the new mass
media, the old traditional media such as the line coverage for television, radio,
books, magazine and newspaper are still surviving and still can compete with the new technologies.
This is because, the old traditional media are used by the old generation such
as the baby boomers,the X and Y gen. The mass usage of the new technologies
started from the Z-generation which when they born, the technology already
exists.
-total of 424 words-
Azura Binti Abd.Mokmin
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Media Anthropology (week 4 entry) (26.11.12)
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