Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Real News vs. Fluff News
As a young adult, I do not watch the news on tv as much as some other people do. I get most of my news from social media, and after watching CNN's headline news in class, I realized that Klosterman had a good point about what consumers consider real news and fluff news.In my opinion, the segment of headline news had a majority of real news, but one story stuck out to me as fluff. The anniversary of JFK's assassination was a fluff story. They spent a lot more time than they needed to discussing his coffin and the museum that holds the actual plane that transported the president and his wife. I understand that the 50th anniversary of his death is an important event in our country, but I feel that there was too much time spent discussing something that can be visited in a museum and seen any time you want. The story that I thought was much more meaningful was the segment on how expensive hospital bills have become. I think that the inflation and over pricing of hospital and medical expenses needs to be uncovered because it is a very big debate in our society. Economically and politically, even, it has been addressed multiple times and the American people are having trouble with this issue.
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