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In my English class, we discussed about our news sources, compared some similarities and differences that we might have noticed. We also talked about how it effected our civic literacy, and what might Hedges, Sullivan, or Carr say about it. Some of my classmates said they get their news from radio in the car on the way to work/school, classmates, people from work, online (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Facebook, Google, YouTube), newspapers, parents, teachers, their phone, and even a television in restaurants. But since it hard to get newspapers delivery to our dorm (home), we get the most information from reading news articles online or mobile. I think most people seek for a way they can get information faster and cheaper. These things can deliver immediately, to the point, and “tailored to [he/her] interests” (Leake). I think getting news from the Internet sometimes can cause few problems. They can be too opinionated, and drops the accuracy, and it becomes very hard to count of them. They are also tend to be brief and does not provide a lot of details. As I mention in the last post, “because people can pick and choose what kind of news they want to read, the information they get can be very limited”. As we discussed in class, I think hedges and Carr would have expected the growth of the internet news source, but might worry internet controlling media could increase the lower civic literacy. However, Sullivan might like this change, and see it as more chances for people to access more news than they were able to before. I believe people need to be able to access internet well as news resources to make it a benefit of our civic literacy. people need to take an advantage of it, rather than letting it harm them.