Throughout this course I have learned a menagerie of useful
things and it also gave me new experiences. Had I never taken this course I
would never have learned about the backdrop of the news sphere and media. I
would not have understood the subtleties between various news sites or
stations. I learned about useful things like forwarding and countering, while
they apply heavily to blogging and news, I find them equally as useful as
debating/conversational tools. That is just one thing that I find a useful tool
for after this course.
Furthermore,
without having taken this class I would not have become more interested in the
blog world or alternative news sources like editorials and so on. I would have
been content with yahoo news, TIMES, and the NY Times, as well as my other news
sources like the Colbert Report and The Daily Show. However, now I am more open
to various news sites, which is beneficial in so many ways. No longer am I just
content with that one news story, I need to read various sources on that one
topic to gain a broader spectrum. No of which would be possible without having
taken a course like this.
Glad to hear that you're now open to a wider variety of new sources. That can help keep you out of the "ideological ghettos" that Hedges writes about.
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