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As a little girl my father would buy the newspaper every day before he dropped us off at school. Then, after a long day with the newspaper, my Dad used to place them on the dining table. Because the newspapers were just sitting there, curiosity got the best of me, and I opened the newspaper and read it. That was my first encounter with a newspaper. As the years progressed, I wasn’t as interested in newspapers, but I would read the movie and fashion reviews routinely. When my parents divorced I didn’t have any newspapers to read because he was the only one that use to bring them home. Although I read newspapers less and less during the week I would spend the weekends at my father’s in which the papers were again always left on the table. Yet, my mother eventually moved to Florida, and I moved in with my grandparents. My grandparents read the paper faithfully on Thursdays and Sundays. I believe this was so because those were the days with the longest issues of “El Nuevo Dia.”
I used to love those days when I read the newspaper. Thursdays were when all the film reviews were issued because that was the day that movies were released in Puerto Rico, unlike the usual Friday in the U.S.A. The Sunday paper reflected all the stories from the week, and contained mini-magazines including “Mi Pequeno Dia.” Also, the Sunday paper included an extensive travel section about a new country. Yet above all my personal favorite section of the Sunday paper was “Por Dentro,” because it wrote about beauty, health, fashion and entertainment all at once. Out of all the newspapers in Puerto Rico, “El Nuevo Dia” was the one I truly loved the most. When I finished my senior year everything changed.
After my senior year I moved to Florida with my Mom, and unfortunately she didn’t have newspapers at home. My Thursdays and Sundays no longer were reading days, but rather leisure days for other activities. The first time I saw a newspaper in Florida I thought it was really peculiar. The paper was long and with tiny words I couldn’t read without my glasses on. I used to compare all the newspapers from Florida with the ones in Puerto Rico. Although American papers are fantastic, I still understand Puerto Rican newspapers better because they are shorter in length and in Spanish which is my first language.
Newspapers are the source of information everyone needs in a daily basis. For every person there is a section they would be interested in. Personally I enjoy newspapers because it is where I can learn the latest news; locally and internationally. With all the technology nowadays, people are losing interest in reading the actual paper and resorting to television and radio . I really enjoy reading the paper while eating my breakfast because , that’s where I get informed with all the news the previous day. Even though television and internet are the future of media right now, newspapers still important and useful in our everyday life.
Days are far too hastily flying by in my life and I never thought I would actually return to my reading habits until Iwalked into my mass communications class. When the teacher said we will be reading The Wall Street Journal my first thought that cross my mind was why will we be reading a newspaper about finance in a communications class. When I got the first issue in my hands I realized it is like a common newspaper with all the news even though it has stuff about finance. I think the Wall Street Journal is a great newspaper when it comes to learning about mass communications. The issues I’ve got so far have been filled with news in the area of mass communications and so forth. I think this class is going to be an interesting one, in which I can learn more about the field I’m interested. Most definitely above all, The Wall Street Journal will help us in our journey to gain knowledge in the communications field.
By using a newspaper instead of a book, the class of survey of mass communications will add an amazing twist to the traditional way of having a class. With a newspaper we will be informed to date of the current news circulating on the field. We are used to read and answer questions from a text book which is not currently to date and since this is a class where the primordial thing is the current news, the best source for the class: the Newspaper.