Tag: news

  • The News

    The News

    We learn so much from the news.  The news helps us to form opinions and develop our ideas.  The news has rules and they try to substantiate anything that they report with multiple sources.  I’m not an expert, but I realize that they do their best. I was listening to…

  • Here’s the Paper If You Want

    Here’s the Paper If You Want

    So I’m at a cafe.  I have my laptop open so to the Google page – pretty much the portal to pretty much anything.  With the Free wifi here, I can get to any news story or trending topic out in the Net. I’m sitting next to this gentleman.  He…

  • Make Fun Of or Pray For

    can you pray for things that you make fun of?

  • Your Own News Show

    One of the things that I love to rant about is news.  I mean seriously – if the news shows gets their information from Twitter and ustream, why couldn’t I just get that same information and make my own news show. Well, I could do it, but then no one…

  • Social Media in the Newsroom

    Watching the news drives me crazy – well, maybe not the whole time, but typically when they have those news stories that are the filler stories.  You know – dancing cats or lasagna recipes – that’s not news. What drives me even more bonkers is when the news uses social…

  • Twitter Busyness

    This is what happens when everyone looks to Twitter for their news.  We are publishing fools.  What can be so important that we need to tell our followers?

  • Biggest in 18 Years

    That’s right.  Our earthquake yesterday was the biggest in the past 18 years.  There has been so many aftershocks with one just happening around 6:30ish this morning (about 38 minutes ago).  It was a 7. 2 magnitude earthquake.  The USGS was saying that an earthquake of that magnitude had to…

  • Social Media News

    We just had a pretty big earthquake and I got a text from my brother asking how we were doing.  He tells me that he saw it on Facebook and wanted to know if we were alright.  Then as I’m checking out facebook and twitter – I see a tweet…

  • #hitsunami

    I love that the news that I’m watching is watching twitter and the blogs for the latest breaking (pardon the pun) news.  The whole segment is on the tweets that they’re watching in order to get the latest news. You can rely on the news, but just know that the…

  • I Don’t Know If This is True

    This was a line that the dj on the radio program that I listen to in the morning said.  She came out and said, “I don’t know if this is true….”, but what she put it out that just as if it was true. News has always been so interesting…