[Part 1] This is what I wanted to study

Situation 1

Lecturer: "Many journalists fail to achieve these goals in their stories."
Student from back: "Yeah, that's why I'm not interested in news!"

Situation 2

A guy shares bullshit news stories from yellow press and concludes: "Not reading the news is still a good choice."

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With all my respect towards your personal choices, completely dissing the news is foolish. Radio and TV are available to everyone basically for free, and when you're using the internet, you have enormous amounts of free information. Most media outlets sustain themselves through advertising and you do not have to open your wallet to receive information. Therefore, the only limit of information intake is how much time do you want to dedicate.

If you are unable to do a basic filtering of what to read, watch or listen to, it is your fault and you will not be able to get the free AND quality content. Without news, you wouldn't know, who are the people that run your lives (politics on all levels), you wouldn't know about cultural development, you wouldn't know what happens outside your comfort circle, which is, at maximum, 50 people. Open up bbc.co.uk or ir.lv, or any other decent news webpage, and imagine that you would not know anything about the topics covered there. Fucking anyone could act on their wildest imaginations, nobody would be aware of that and society could not develop, since there would be zero connections. "But I get news when people share them on Facebook or 9gag," fuck you, those are either reposted news articles or wild and shallow interpretations of them. Is this so hard to understand?

"For my friends, who distribute 9gag links: I can't forbid you to eat shit, that is your right, but for this reason it is so much harder to love you." (Source)

And with this mediocre self-shot from my previous residence I will stop raging.

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