EOTO: News Deserts

News Deserts - 

    

I have briefly learned about they word "News Deserts" but never had any idea this was still an issue in today's society. Personally I am from Des Moines, Iowa so I have seen small towns before since a majority of Iowa is made up of small farm towns, but they are still pretty developed. Meaning they have groceries stores, post offices and news stands, they might be small towns with not a lot of people. But these towns still have resources to keep them connected to the bigger world, so when I found out there are still many cities that don't have that kind of surprises me. Which made it a lot more interesting to learn more about the problem and how many cities actually face this issue of not getting any news. 

    There are so many counties in the United States that experience no weekly or daily news locally, so they don't have any idea what is going on within their state or city. Basically puts these people in a bubble having to get the information from another person, which can put the information in danger of being bias or false. It's simply like playing a game of telephone but with news information, we all know how unreliable that can be just playing with a group of friends. Imagine playing with with a whole city and news information they have heard, it can get very risky in the terms of knowing if it true or not. So there was a lot of new and interesting facts that I was able to take away from this project, and getting to learn more about a problem that I didn't even know that was still effecting many. It makes want to stay alert when I travel to new cities and seeing if they are a news desert or not.