My Top 5 News Outlets

 

    My go-to news outlet is always Instagram because it is the app I use the most. Therefore, I do not intentionally look for news on Instagram, it comes up on my explore page, and that is how I am up to date on current events. My dad and uncle will also direct message me news stories and articles on Instagram because I do not like suffocating myself with world events/news because it is mostly negative stuff, and they know this about me and try to keep me up-to-date on current events. 

    The following outlet that I get news from is CNN. This was my main news source in high school because my American History class, junior year, would watch CNN every Friday before my teacher would begin his lessons and make us write weekly summary essays on articles we had read, and one of the sources we could use was CNN. Furthermore, CNN is sort of a habit when it comes to a news source. 

    For my third source of news, I use Snapchat because, like Instagram, I am on the app a lot during my day, more than I would like to admit. Most of the time I am scrolling on my explore page and click on stories that catch my eye, and sometimes they are news stories. Four times out of five the stories are clickbate, so I only trust the stories from verified sources that have a blue check by their name. 

     Fox News is the fourth outlet I use for my source of media. I like to have new sources that contrast each other so I do not get only one-sided, biased news. I can also compare my opinions with a different view, determine the two, and reflect on whether I still believe in my opinion or if I want to change or tweek my perspective on the topic. My parents also like Fox News as their news resource and will put in on in the mornings while they ate breakfast. During the 2021 election, that was the channel they would only put on the television because they felt that it is not as biased as the democratic news channels. 

    Lastly, if I want to go out of my way to find out what is happening in the world, I will use Google News. I use the website browser the most, and if I notice an article that grabs my attention, I'll click on it. I am not proud to admit that I fall into Google's trap, but sometimes they know just how to word their headlines to make me click. On the other hand, I am not sure if the Google articles that I click on are about movies, music, and events that I am interested in. For example, if a celebrity couple that I "care" about breaks up, like Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler, I want to know the details of why they broke up; or when Machine Gun Kelly was in the process of making his documentary with Hulu. Those are the sort of articles that I would click on with Google only because they were "fed" to me.