Media Literacy

I think I have been more exposed to the media being in college than I did when I was in high school. Growing up the only time I watched the news was with my dad or at the gym because that was the only thing on the television, and being a high school student I got bored easily and didn't care much. My school never exposed us to the media, but we did have a media class where we shot and edited our own packages and then put them in our own television show. That was about as far as my media exposure went. In college I have come to care more about what is going on, so I will turn on the news when I get home at night or open up the paper in the mornings. Last summer I interned at Dateline NBC and in every hall they were playing MSNBC on the television. I really enjoyed getting to see news coverage all day long and this really exposed me to what was going on in the world. I think as we get older, we mature and actually care more about being exposed.