News Sources

What kind of news do you follow, and how do you gain access to it? Why do you choose to follow the stories you do on the outlets you do?

• I am not much of a big news follower. However, my mom is a big news follower, and she is my main news source. Usually she just watches the local Taiwanese news, and she would pass on any type of interesting news story that she came across, or those new stories that she believes teaches a moral lesson and that it would be a good idea to tell me that lesson. Since my mom and I are similar in what we find interesting, we would often have a heated discussion about the topic in interest.
• Most of the news she talks to me about from the local Taiwanese news is concerned with society. For example, theft, murder, rape, and politics. She tells me these social flaws because she wanted me to be cautious about these things.
• My mom is also a big watcher of CNN and BBC as well, since she likes to pay attention to international news. We would then talk about those as well, and these discussions are where my MUN material comes from.
• The type of news that I do not like to follow is useless (to me anyways) gossip and petty news (for example, people being nice people to others). I also do not like to follow gossip or scandals about politicians, idols, stars, actors or actresses, or any other entertainer, because most of the time when I see those news, I think that they are really just, ridiculous. I do not like news that would benefit me in practical knowledge about the world.