News Habits

I love the news. I hate the news. It's a complex relationship. I do receive the newspaper everyday. The Dallas Morning News that is. I signed up for that a few years back when I was knee deep in journalism classes, and I fell in love, but I hate it!
So most of my news is gathered from reading the daily paper. A close second to that is the telly. I find myself flipping between FOX News, CNN, and MSNBC when I find some afternoon time to sit around. There are far too many commercials though. That gives me a great idea; Why don't I start recording the news on my DVR? Ingenious!
Most of what I pay attention to is sports related. I'm a sports nut, and everything else just makes me melancholy. Of course I like to know of worldly and local events, but I'm most concerned with whether the Spurs or the Cowboys won. I'm growing apathetic to negative news in my old age.
I most likely spend no more than an hour or two a day reading or watching the news. Somedays I allow myself no time. Not enough hours in the day sometimes.
When I find myself reading about race, gender, sexuality, or disabilities I tend to assume that the media remains mostly fair and balanced. It does vary from network to network or medium to medium, but professional news organizations routinely look for a middle ground. That's not to say racism or sexism is not there, it is just reported covertly in a biased way. A keen mind can read between the lines.

Johnny

UNT Fall Semester 2007

I've got to go out and buy a copy of the latest Maxim magazine to serve as an educational purpose to this course!
I'm excited to be involved with a course related to the most persuasive aspect of American capatilism - marketing. I've seen vast changes since the 80's, and my personal opinion is that sex and violence in advertising and film alike are attributing to the breakdown of morality in our culture. Not to mention about countless other things. I'll leave it at that for now.
Here's looking foward to the new course- Go Mean Green!

Johnny