Wahhh

So sitting in class just now I realized that I did what would be blog number three completely wrong, lucky for me I actually read newspapers so I might actually be able to get away with this. Looking at the Inverted Pyramid format I find that it heavilly influences exactly how I read papers...generally skipping a large bulk of the center story because of the lack of relevant facts. Due to the size of a newspaper and the amount of information that can be fit I tend to read the first few paragraphs in order to get names, dates, times and important information...this holds true far more in the New York Times then it does with Journal News or Daily News since the other two (in my opinion) are more gossip related then the others. Using these shorthanded facts I find it a lot easier to do my own personal research into the subjects or news events at hand.
Another example I've found is news media on television while the stories are not written in the same format as a newspaper they're still delivered in the same fashion, since time is a pressurepoint for channel based news they're almosted forced into this pyramid format of news. Who, what, where, when are often explained within the first few minutes (paragraphs) but why is often left out for larger editorial pieces. Magazines will often times cover a much larger multipage story on the subject (if its important enough to the journalist) but often times dont follow the same format as a newspaper or television broadcast. It's this distribution of information that links together the entire genre of news that newspapers fall into, and the key similarities that keep me from relying on them as my sole (or even major) source of information.