I didn't really have any newspaper habits before receiving the wall street journal. I would pick up the paper on occasion on Sunday's for the job ads and the comics. For the flyers for target and wal-mart and the sales they were all having, for the up coming week. I am really not into the news as horrible as that may sound. Every so often I would put on the ten o'clock news to see what was going on, however it just get so depressing after a while it is hard for me to stay focused.
I know that there is a purpose for newspapers today I am just not sure what it is. Everything that is in them now a days can be found online or on television. With the way the world is today and as horrible as it is to say but why waste the paper. I just don't feel that enough people read them to keep producing them in that mass amounts that they come in. When a store does not sell them all do they send them back to be recycled? Do they recylce them on their own? Or do they just throw then in the trash?
As contradictory as it sounds I think it is better using the WSJ instead of a text book. A text book can not keep up with today's information. Once the book is in print it cannot change. Using a daily newspaper keeps you up much better with the times. How companies are doing, new and old books that are making a dent in today's society. Movies that are being remade with meaning or just for laughter, but how are they still making the money they are making with the economy being the way that it is? I feel that using the paper will help us better understand the world as it is and not as it was when the book was being put together. It is not a history class it is a current process that continues to change and grow and I believe I will get a better understanding of that in this class.
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