WEEK 4 TASK

Write a short essay about 400 words about the below stated issue: news and you.
How often do you read the paper or watch the news on TV? How important is it for you to keep up the current events?

     Every second there are something interesting happening around the world, whether you like it or not it will have direct and indirect effects to the world. Knowing about the events that happening around the world isn't just to help you in your social conversation but it may help you in so many different ways. Newspaper and TV are considered as the ‘old’ medium for the informative media today but they are both still the most common media you can find in every household. The influence of reading the newspaper and watching the TV news are come from the elderly from the family mostly and this process didn’t skipped in my family too.

     For me I am not really the reading type but I do enjoy reading some books once in a while and I’ll try to keep it as a habit as I know how much it will benefits me. As for reading from newspaper, I do have this habit when before I introduced to the Internet. It’s not that I prefer to read from a screen than the paper, I personally really enjoy to read through the paper. For me I just think that it’s so much easier to get everything done just from browsing through my laptop.

     Watching the news from the TV to get the info is quite different from reading through the newspaper, with the help from the reporter and the video that they are showing to us, it’s much more interesting and easier for us to get to the point. The bad thing about it is, it don’t really give us much time to think about the issues as they continually feeding us with different issues. This will make us think differently and make different conclusion about the news at the end as we could only review our thought about the news at the very end.

     It’s very important for us to keep up with the current events, it will help us to acknowledge the behavior of the society today and keep us self conscious  about  the need for us to change for the society. Something you think is normal may be viewed as unnatural or even obscene from another culture of the world. For this we may need to review ourselves on why do they think this way and is it okay to really think this way or even maybe we should do something in order to change the way we are thinking for the development of the society behavior. 

     As a conclusion, it doesn’t matter how we get the news whether it’s from the internet or from the old traditional media, we may choose what ever in our own preferences. The most important part is what kind of things did we get from them and how do we make those knowledge to be useful in our life. Knowing is knowledge.