I watched the Fox News channel after the State of the Union Address was completely finished, which was around eleven o’clock. The first thing that the newscasters discussed was the State of the Union Address that Obama had just made. They talked about how Obama was to have a new agenda for 2010 and it involved everything ranging from health care reform to job creation to immigration reform. Then the topic completely switched and moved on to how Toyota has extended its recall to Europe, how a woman who won the lottery died in a car crash on the same day, the weather all over the world, and news from Haiti.
The news has a very quick pace, it moves from one story to the next and you really have to keep up with the politics to not get confused by the terms that being used and what everything means. If you don’t keep up with the news regularly then it is easy to be confused about what is going on. I also noticed that sometimes there is a ticker on the bottom of the screen that shows other important news while the main story is going on. Last night the news was definitely dominated by Obama’s speech, and Fox News had a lot of interviews with politicians right after. It’s good to hear every opinion no matter what party the person was associated to. The news should do a good job of showing all sides to the story, but I noticed that that always isn’t the case. I also found that the way the news anchors would go on location and broadcast makes for a larger impact on people, especially when Haiti’s devastation was shown.
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