The New York Times

The New York Times has always been a regular news source for me but taking this course has made me more inclined to check the website daily. While prior to coming to college, I read The New York Times only in newspaper form, now I rarely pick up a paper out of the newsstands around campus the articles I read are all form their website. While this is only a slight change, I have found that the types of articles I read are significantly different when looking at the articles in the two different forms. While before when getting the paper I would first flip to the sections that interested me the most: World News, Sports or the occasional Science section. When On the website I always look at what has been updated the most recently and am much more likely to look at things considering politics or business. I find this interesting because when reading articles on the internet I am less inclined to read what interests me but more inclined to read what is most current. I find myself checking nytimes.com multiple times a day to see if there are any more recent stories rather than picking out certain sections of the paper. In a sense switching to reading articles online has broadened my article genres and enticed me to read more than just the sections I pick out to be the most interesting.

Through regularly keeping up with events that are going on in the world, I have also considered looking at different sources. I have found it very interesting to read about the same instance from two different sources. While much of the news is crossed from source to source it is interesting to look at how different news sites portray the situation and compare the two. I have also found that this gives you a broader perspective on the events and the biases that each news source possesses.