Different Similarities

In today’s society, and my classroom as well obviously, we all seem to receive our news basically the same. A lot of people seem to use the trifecta of Internet, word of mouth, and in particular Facebook. While online, people tend to focus more on Facebook as a simple way to find out quick little nodes of information. However, in a close second I seem to find my classmates using various websites like Yahoo, which has daily updates about news that is going on around our city, country, and our world. Due to this, I am not seeing many people, if any, that use the newspaper nowadays for a source of entertainment for receiving their daily news and updates. Will the newspaper seize to exist in the years to come? I feel that this may not happen entirely. However I do believe that the paper form will not be around. Instead I think electronics will take over the paper companies by simply just transferring the printed material into Internet sites like they have already started to do. This characteristic would be put down by Chris Hedges and Nicholas Carr for the purpose of them thinking that the Internet is already affected our society negatively. Hedges in particular is troubled about how the Internet may be lowering our reading levels. On the Internet unfortunately, when it comes to publically widespread items like the news can’t be a very high reading level. However in contrast, I feel Andrew Sullivan would like this kind of change simply because he focuses more on the fact whether or not people are communicating in society in general, he isn’t really concerned about exactly how we talk and learn about information, more or less he is worried about the content. I in particular might agree towards Sullivan's view just because it is more about what you read then how you read it.