Pocket News

Terrell Miller
Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read

Over the last few days while noting my news intake, I’ve noticed that I tend to focus more on the news when I first wake up and right before I go to sleep. But more specifically I consume around 75 percent of my news from my smartphone. Since I’ve pretty much grown with advancing technology and new ways to get news. Having my phone with me at all times allows me to stay updated on what’s happening around the world all the time.

What works best for me are apps on my phone. I have things like CBS News, ESPN, AP News and The New York Times. Having news notification on alone helps keep me updated and not really forcing me to go into the app itself. Of course going into the application is more useful. Selecting what kind of news stories you are looking and location really helps expand you knowledge of what’s happening right now.

Another important piece of news source I use is social media. Things like Facebook Instagram and snapchat are big way I find my news. But this can be very risky because of “Fake News” something the president is always addressing. There was a big scandal with the 2016 presidential election involving allegations that Russia was purposely spreading fake news across social media to mislead people opinions of the two candidates. But a great way to avoid this “Fake News” is by following accurate and reliable journalist and news companies. Also just you can just source check what you read. A lot of people share fake tweets and things like that from famous/political people without going and checking for themselves. For example after a concert at the New York State fair someone made a photoshopped screenshot having music artist A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie say, “Syracuse was ghetto and dirty I will not be coming back!!!”. When I seen this I honestly not sure if he had said it himself or not because there was a bunch of fights during his performance so it was possible. But when I looked into his Twitter account I seen that he actually said “Syracuse… Thank you.. #HBTL”. So just a little fact checking like that can help anyone know what’s real news and what’s “Fake News”.

The only time I would really get into print news is whenever I visit my grandparents’ house and it’s a Sunday, when their Sunday newspaper is still there. Which isn’t too frequent because I’m here in Oswego. So print news to me is not really a thing anymore. And when it comes to live TV/ broadcasted news I just don’t get into it because it seems to time consuming. It’s a lot easier to just pull out my phone and get the important details to a story rather waiting for things like commercials. And I was never into radio news because I don’t really listen to the radio or podcast. this assignment helped me realize my go to way of knowing the news. So when I need my news I just get my phone from pocket or where ever I may have it and then I can know what’s going on around me.