The news in general tends to give people information about what is going on around the US and around the world. It also helps to make complicated situations easier for the public to read such as explaining how the Flu …show more content…
It gives us all a common ground to talk from and to a degree brings us all together. Without it there would probably be a lot of dull conversations since there would be no global news to speak on. To a degree, the news acts as a gossip page since it is not always based in facts. While gossip news such as TMZ exist, there are more reliable sources such as Washington Post. Without all this news, we would probably also be a lot more concerned on what the next move for wars would be. If we didn’t have the news we would have a lot of free time to do other things rather than talk about Beyoncé having