News Agenda

To ready for the quiz every Friday, I read newspaper everyday. I did not have the habit to read newspaper everyday because my family ordered Chinese newspaper and as I am a ‘banana’ who cant read Chinese, I always missed those news and did not know what was going on outside the world until my mum told me some of the news or I watch the television news. To ready myself so that I can answer the quiz in class, I started to buy newspaper everyday and I choose ‘The Star’ as my choice. I choose this newspaper is because most of my relatives who can’t read Chinese would read this newspaper. I did not choose ‘The News Strait Times Press’ because I have already used to it to read ‘The Star’ more than ‘NSTP’.
I prefer to read through newspaper is because I can read it carefully every word and repeat it whenever I did not understand and want to have a clear message about the news. I also love to see the advertisement and if there is any sale is coming up. In newspaper, they have the entire column which I need or did not need such as ‘Star Metro’ where all the jobs, houses, cars, shops, business for sale and buy, and also service repair available. It helps me once when my refrigerator broke down and I need some one to help me repair it. Newspapers also have some column which is my favorite. It is the part where the comics and games such as ‘Sudoku’ and also the daily horoscope reading available.
I did not prefer to read news online as my first source although it was quite convenience now is because online news are only some news which is highlighted and was given more attention then those small news. Not all news printed in newspaper also posted and could be found in the online newspaper website. Reading online is also not convenience because we need to click on the news title to read it. After finish reading it, we need to click back to the previous main page to click into another news title. It is quite time consuming to doing that all the time.
Watching news on television is also the same. Only some highlighted news which was counted more serious or big matter reported and also news which had video clip to shown. Not these only, we have to wait until which channel was showing it at what time was the English version news was shown.
I did not prefer to update news by listen to radio that often because radio’s news is just by speaking through words and it is not easy for me to catch really what detail in the news. In addition, radio could not give us to see the images and we only could think the images of the news through our imagination.
For most of all, reading newspaper is so flexible for me. It did not as the same as the television news and radio news which was only reported at several selected time. I can read my newspaper whenever I have my free time, such as waiting at the bus stop, in the LRT, in the toilet or while having lunch. It was so convenience and I can bring it anywhere not likes online news, I need to bring my heavy laptop and find places which have provided free internet line.