Reading vs. Watching the news

Last week in class we talked about wether it was better to read or to watch the news. This is something that I think is very important. When you sit down and read something, you are forced to pay attention to the words to get the full meaning. When you are sitting and having something told to then you are really not paying that much attention to what is being said but more to what is going on around the screen. I find that when you read something you get more out of it. You pay attention to the surface meaning, but the if you come back to the same story later then yuo can look for more to the story. When you read you can see all the signs infront of you instead of having to hear it cut down to a two minute segment of information that the producers deem important to all viewers. I find that when you sit down to read it is at a moment when you really want to pay attetion to the what is in front of you. Many times when people turn on the new to "watch" it, it turns into more of background noise that you don't really pay attention. When you read something you notice what the codes being used are and the signs that are being used by the writer. You see and retain more of what you read.