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About Me JN201

ME:
My name is Ryan Darling I live in Lebanon Oregon where I have lived for my whole life.  I am going to school at Linn Benton this summer and transferring to Western Oregon University in the fall to study business.  Some interesting things about me is that I started my first business when I was 15 years old.  It is a lawn care business where I still work today.  I love creating things, last summer I flipped a house and this summer I plan to build a tiny house (if anyone is interested in purchasing one let me know).  My goal when I finish school is to become a financial advisor for Edward Jones.

Family:
My family is very important to me and I love spending time with them.  My parents are the nicest people I know.  I have two sisters a younger biological sister who is nine and an adopted older sister who is 24.  My parents and older sister never went to college so I am the first one in our family who is making this step.

Hobbies:
I am really into outdoor sports such as waterskiing snow skiing and golfing.  I occasionally go to the coast to go ridding my quad on the dunes but as I get older it is more and more challenging to find the time to get down there for more then a few days.

Interstest about media:
Media is a great way to market and sell things in this new age.  In todays world a good review about your product or business from a large social media personality will explode your growth, and a bad review could tank your success.  This is interesting to see how my generation takes media as gospel and how media is a very viable place to market.

My sources of information:
I personally get my information from three main places.  the first being Youtube.  I don't watch TV anymore because I only want to watch a few shows that are on Youtube.  Theses shows give me a majority of my news and what is going on in Tech. The next place I get information is Twitter.  Since I can follow famous people in technology and media I am able to see what is going on in those spaces instantly as soon as the news breaks.  The last place I would say I get the most information is Instagram.  Just like Twitter I am able to follow people of importance who release information about what they are working on much faster then waiting for the news teams to get to it.  Below is a link which shows that many people are getting their news from places other then the three major new shows.   http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/03/01/social-media-use-in-2018/
I consider the sources I watch more reliable because they go for quality over quantity.  For example one of the shows I watch on Youtube is called the Philip Defranco Show.  He is careful to not put out false stories that are not factual.  Him and his team do many hours of research before posting a story on the topic and if a mistake was made he makes sure to correct it in the next show instead of just hoping no one caught him.

Fake News
What I have learned about fake news since President Trump has made the term popular is very different to different people.  For Trump it seems that fake news is news that tells paints him in a bad light.  Or maybe it is news that he doesn't believe in.  Others say fake news is news that hides most of the truth and only shows what pushes forward the agenda.  In any capacity fake news is harmful to our social ecosystem,  because instead of sharing the news as it is we share an altered news or a news with alternative facts this could also be called lazy journalism.  although we saw a lot of this in the past couple year this kind of journalism has been going on for years.  Ever since the "newsy" who were the boys selling papers on the street-corners there has been fake news.  These boys would skim through the paper at the start of the day and yell out headlines and parts of the stories but some of the story they were telling was made up.  In todays world news almost feels like homework because you cannot trust it at face value you have to do your own research and verify what you are reading is true.  Just like Stephanie Busari said people share news these days without even reading past the headlines. This is very damaging to the media ecosystem when people can take a platform such as Facebook and post whatever they want on there to their friends not having even read the whole article and expect that the click-baiting headline was correct.  You know the old saying "don't trust everything you read online" well in todays world it should be "don't trust anything."



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