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The media are excellent sources of ideas, from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to The National Enquirer and TMZ.com. In all likelihood, you will access media from a variety of platforms. One drawback to some online news sources is what is called the digital paywall, which limits Internet users’ access to the publication without a paid subscription. For that reason, accessing these publications through your library’s databases (the institution pays the subscription) is recommended.

Digital paywall: Limits Internet users’ access to the publication without a paid subscription.

In 2014, a survey of how Americans get their news reported that most Americans had consulted four different platforms for news in the previous week and that the most frequently consulted devices were “television (87 percent), laptops/computers (69 percent), radio (65 percent), and print newspapers or magazines (61 percent)” (American Press Institute, 2014, para. 4). Sources of news vary tremendously in their point of view (liberal to conservative), their perceived credibility, and the news stories they emphasize (you might already be thinking about a research project that investigates the news publications and platforms consulted by students in different majors, for example).

Figure 2.4 Sources: Academia and Media