Media Consumption

February 5th, 2011  Tagged ,

One of our first homework assignments for Online Journalism was to read Eric Deggans’ article, What is Your Media Pyramid?

Essentially your media pyramid should end up looking like the food group pyramid. The bottom level of mine started out with the huge giants of media like powerhouses aol.com, msn.com, huffingtonpost.com and washingtonpost.com as my go to source to get news and information. Then for news tuned to my liking, in the middle block of my pyramid was facebook and twitter. The top of the pyramid, held what I use sparingly to get news from, like blogger and wordpress.

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