Day 5

We were sitting at lunch today and my friend Ben walks up and sits down with his food and a USA Today. He starts eating and reading the paper and a minute or two later mutters under his breath “I don’t care… that’s what the sports section is for.” My friend Stephen who is absolutely obsessed with sports and who is also sitting next to Ben immediately perks up when he hears the word sports and asks Ben what he is talking about. Pointing at the headline “He's back: Tiger rallies to win Arnold Palmer Invitational,” Ben says something about how “we don’t need useless things about sports on the front page when there is more important things in life.” Immediately Stephen gets defensive and the two start bashing each other’s preferred styles of media and the argument eventually ends with Ben calling Stephen a “deushbag.” I thought their skirmish was kind of funny and it made me think about the versatility of the media around us. Illustrated by their fighting, even just one newspaper like USA Today can cater towards a wide audience by printing articles for sub groups like sports-lovers, moms, and businessmen.