What is Your Current Event?

Blog 10/18

In class we talked about current events, we picked a couple of articles then voted on the one we wanted to talk about; today we talked about a panda who was put down. While I recognize the sadness behind the story of the world’s oldest panda being put down I do not agree that it was the most important topic or article. The other articles were stories on: Michelle Obama’s speech, Bill Clinton, and a local Arizona story about a company donating one million to a charity in opposition to prop. 205. These are events and problems that we can fix, and or be a part of to make better; these are the things we need to know. We cannot help the panda since it’s dead; it had a good life and a very long one (the world oldest panda). We need to educate ourselves on the important events in today’s world. I feel like my age group is reading stories on Facebook and that is the “news” they read for the day. I hope I am wrong.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/17/asia/worlds-oldest-panda-jia-jia-dies/

This is the idea of algorithms for people on Facebook and what they are searching. We all have a selected a filter on your newsfeeds without even knowing it, creating an almost bias news cycle. This is if you keep clicking on the fluffy/happy stories and articles then you keep filtering more stories like that into your feed. With out knowing you are for setting yourself up to miss articles or stories that you did not even know you are leaving out. This is the same way if you like on post they will keep popping up on your page. We are allowing the internet to cut us off with out even knowing it, editing out information from are newsfeeds. 

The main problem with people reserving their news to only social media is it not from the most reliable source. I try to use read article from all different news companies: New York Times, Arizona Daily Star, CNN, and more. These are all credible news sites that have the best fact checkers in the business working for them. On the other hand, the problem with Facebook and some of the articles people post is that they do not have fact checkers. You know the saying, “you can not trust anything or everything you read on the Internet!”

 

Image 1: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/17/worlds-oldest-panda-in-captivity-dies-in-hong-kong/ 

Image 2:http://giphy.com/gifs/math-zach-galifianakis-the-hangover-5yLgoceFO3BdJW1zvFu

Image 3:http://gov20class.blogspot.com/2015/09/newspapers-versus-cnncomnytimescom.html