No More 'Fire Side Chats'

With all the available resources available it is increasingly easy to find news stories.  However it is not as easy (due to laziness) to look at news stories.  Now one of the main reasons I read about the news is because Yahoo is my homepage when I open an internet browser.  Now before there is any bashing on Yahoo, I like how their website is setup because there are about 16 news stories ranging from fashion to weather and I can quickly scroll over one and find out the main jist of a story.  If something really catches my eye I’ll click the link and read the article (or most of it).   The second way I get my news is notifications that get ‘pushed’ from my New York Times and CNN apps on my iphone.  Push notifications are also extremely useful, because they notify me about a main news story in one sentence, and from there I can choose to go to the main article or not.  Even if I’m not reading the entire article I still am able to find out about what is going on in the election or what big companies are doing.  Now although occasionally I do pick up a news paper or catch a glimpse of a news story on the TV, I usually don’t use either of these source to get my news.  As for radio since I’m big into music and don’t have a car in Denver I almost never listen to news stories via radio.  It’s strange how close to 70 years ago the radio was patented and became one of the biggest inventions used world wide.  I mean people were obsessed with the radio—they got to listen to FDR’s ‘fire side chats.’  The radio used to be such a source of news and now the only real radio station that I can think of to have any real impact anymore is NPR.  The world is changing—we no longer rely on radio or newspapers for news, it’s all about quick short stories on the Internet.