It seemed that many of my peers accessed their news in similar ways. Their current main source of the news is the internet but this wasn't always the case. I noticed that parents and families had an impact on their news gathering. If their family had the news hour on television playing nightly, they would often watch that. Others had NPR playing in their household. Those around us always impact our sources of information. Parents are especially influential in doing this.
Where we get our information from can impact many things. Daily events affect our conversations with others, our opinions on politics and how we engage in class. If we have biased information, it can skew our perspectives. From looking at the diverse sources of information that my classmates cited, I don't think that is the case with a lot of them. They seem to receive balanced information from many sources. This highlights a huge change in the flow of information. Previous generations may have gotten all of there news from one source like a specific news paper. Our generation has the internet and can access an infinite amount of websites. Though there might be more biased perspectives out there today, there are a lot of good ones that balance them out.
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