Revision

Forwarding:

In looking back in retrospect at my goals, it seems I have completed the main one.  I aimed at regaining my interest in the New York Times.  At the conclusion of this course, I can without doubt say that I have accomplished that.  I no longer click straight to facebook or collegehumor off of my homepage.  My homepage being the times, I take some time to figure out what has been happening in current events.  It was not a problem that I didn’t have a subscription for the online NYT.  The amount I read in a day doesn’t hit the cap very often and I am left to freely read.  In doing my reading I found myself thinking of questions about background material and other information relating to the article.  With all of the work that we have done with the press sphere and the life of news stories, I am able to easily find this information.

This revision adds to the last post by providing a new perspective that I didn’t have when I wrote it the first time.  Forwarding my ideas from last time and contributing my new perspectives, provides a new take on the way I interact with the times.

Original Post:

I've been quite used to reading the New York Times for a while now.  As I described in earlier posts, though I took a break from it last quarter, I did read it throughout most of high school.  The NYT is one of the most respected and influential news sources in the world, if not the most.  Even facing a society drifting away from print news sources, the NYT found a way to survive.  It revamped its business plan, putting all of its news online and beginning to cap the articles that you can read.  To access more than the headlines and a few articles, you now have to pay the subscription fee. 

The stories that I remember reading most were ones about the current political environment and the republican primaries.  These seemed the most important to the day’s events.  Most of my reading went off of the home page, without venturing to the different sections of the world news.  In doing this I'm sure I missed interesting stories that for whatever reason didn't make the headlines.

What the New York Times does that I love is in articles it links to opinion pages and other interesting stories.  After skimming an article I can read related articles.  This leads me to read the different perspectives on an event as well as background information that I otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to.