Week 4 - individual task

News and you. How often do you read the paper or watch the news on TV? How important is it for you to keep up with current events?

News is the communication of information on recent and important events. People always want to get themselves updated with the latest news which happened around the world. The only way for them to get updated is by using various media to get the latest news. The media that often used by the human will be newspaper, television, radio and internet. Why news is important for us? Because it able to let us know what happened around us and it also makes ourselves more interesting so the gap between us and society will be not big.

A newspaper is a publication that was issued daily or weekly and includes local and international news stories, advertisements, announcements, opinions, cartoons, sports news and television listings. It is an important method to let the public know everything that recently happening in their local area and around the world. Even with the advance of technology, newspapers still continue to be an important aspect of everyday life. I was started to read newspaper when I was studying in secondary school. Usually, I prefer choose the most interesting headline or picture before I started to read the article and newspaper. From that time onwards, it slowly becomes my habits to get updated with the world. After I enter the University, because the time I spent on surfing internet is much more on the newspaper, so normally the news and information are easily for me to get through the internet compare to daily newspaper.

Television news programs will be provides the updates on world, national, regional or local news events from time to time. Television news is very image-based and it showed video of many events that are reported. When I was young, I seldom to watch newscast on television program because I think that the channel are boring compared to other television programs. When I grow up gradually, I still accompany my father watching the news together during night time. Although I’m still studying, but whenever I go I will get updated with the latest news by reading newspaper or watching TV news.

For sure, I believe that news is important for everyone. Although newspaper and television are old media, but there are still a lot of people prefer on this way because it is cheap where don’t need to face to a device for a long period and also accepted by everyone. Eventually, newspaper and television can said that it deliver the message to audience from time to time without any problem.