Essay 1-MMC 1100

Before receiving the Wall Street Journal, my newspaper reading habits were pretty much every week day since 6th grade. I have no idea why I started reading the newspaper early on. Maybe it was because I saw my parents always reading the newspaper with their breakfast, so I started doing it too. I knew lots of kids my age (11 at the time) never read the newspaper, but I was always interested in what was happening around me. Since I lived in Chicago, I read the Daily Herald all the time. That was the only newspaper that my parents prescribed to. During the summers though, my reading habits were not every day, but when school started back up in the fall, I would read the newspaper with my breakfast. When I moved to Orlando in 2007, my family and I started receiving the Orlando Sentinel, the Osceola paper, and St. Cloud News. I still read the paper every morning before school and sometimes on the weekends. I love to do the word searches in the St. Cloud paper haha. Those are always fun.


My opinion on newspapers is definitely a good one. I absolutely love them. They are there for my convenience and I can sit down and enjoy reading. Sure someone can go turn on the T.V. and watch the news, but it may not give you what you want to hear. It can tell you news from all over the country when you only want the local news. Unlike T.V., in the newspaper you can always go back and reread an article or stop reading if you have to go take the dogs out and come back and start where you left off, where as if you are watching the news on T.V. you miss information you wanted to hear because the dogs had to go out. That happens to me all the time.


I am excited to use the Wall Street Journal to learn about mass communications. There is a lot of information that changes everyday in the mass communications world. The WSJ will keep us posted on the latest information. I believe the WSJ will meet my expectation for learning.


I think it is a brilliant idea to use newspapers rather than a traditional textbook for class. I like it not just because it saves me like a hundred dollars from not buying the book, but the newspaper is a daily resource that will have the daily news in it. If we used the textbook, it would be outdated even if it was just published because things are changing in the communication world every hour.

~Danie~