You can't run away from the latest news. It's a fact. No matter how naive or how much you try to force yourself under a rock news will always reach you. It's just a matter of fact of what kind of news that will find itself to you, maybe about the nearest neighbour or the war happening all the way on the other side of the country. In this case we're talking about the second kind of news, the one on a much bigger scale.
For me, I hardly read the newspaper or watch the daily news. Even though my parents are regular readers of the newspaper and regularly keep up with the latest events, for me and also my siblings, those kind of behaviour doesn't seem to be passed down. Nevertheless, even with the lack of effort on constantly updating myself on the current news, since the people of my generation are much more in tune with the internet than the medium of newspapers and TVs, we are still very much in the know on all kinds of events that are happening across the world.
Twitter for one, has a feature that makes it very useful for the users to know on the popular topic that people are currently talking about which are the 'Trending Topics". Since news travel much faster than it does with the print publications and television broadcasts, sometimes the soon to be worldwide news are known much in advance by internet and social media users than the regular viewers of the daily 8 o'clock news.
It is very important to keep up with the current events and just because the younger generation do not regularly buy newspapers as much, it cannot be said that they are not on the pulse of the current affairs. Also with the wide range of information on the net, it is also a lot more possible for people to make their own opinions and research on more sources than just blindly absorbing the one-sided opinions that is churned out by the media.
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