"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere" Chinese proverb
Ways to be informed
One day people will give up newspapers. Nevertheless some of us try to put off unavoidable. People subscribe to different newspapers every year but their reading habits continue to develop and change.
Let’s be honest. Who has got time for daily papers nowadays? With our busy morning schedules, we hardly manage to pick it up from the mail box and put it in the house. It doesn’t mean that we are not interested in the news. We just keep up with the news differently these days.
While getting dressed, we get the headlines and much awaited weather forecast from the “Good Morning” TV show. Stuck in traffic on the way to work we check our Twitter feed and the posts on Facebook.
Different online news channels send alerts during the day with breaking news. We’ve got apps on our iPads and scan the opinion pages from time to time. We read posts from the bloggers whom we enjoy following.
Someone will email me a link to an interesting piece of news. I’ll read it there and then. The world goes on.
As Samuel Johnson said, “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.”
Television
They run nine national TV services providing entertainment, news, current affairs and arts coverage for the whole of the UK.
The output is available via digital TV, live online via channel websites and as video-on-demand via BBC iPlayer.
On BBC One you’ll find news and current affairs, drama, comedy and entertainment programmes.
BBC Two
Factual programmes are at the heart of BBC Two, including arts, history, science and human interest documentaries.
BBC Three
The youngest channel is never afraid to try new things, broadcasting comedy, entertainment, and docs.
BBC Four
BBC Four provides an ambitious range of innovative, high quality programming that is intellectually and culturally enriching, taking an expert and in-depth approach to a wide range of subjects.
CBBC
The channel for 6-12 year olds in search of drama, entertainment, factual, comedy, animation and news.
CBeebies
The youngest of the all of us get active play, creativity and imagination from CBeebies, on-air and online.
BBC News
The UK’s most-watched news channel airs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and features correspondents from across the world.
BBC Parliament
The UK’s only channel dedicated to politics, showing debates and committees from across the UK.
BBC Alba
Documentaries, music, sport plus children’s programmes and news and current affairs for Gaelic-speaking people in Scotland.