How do I keep a media blog?

Some men, just want to ...

I have been wondering about how to approach this task. I am not usually exposed to traditional media in the sense that I don't listen to the radio, I barely watch tv, and I really don't look at the news. So how do I even find out what's going on in the world?

This morning, about 10 minutes ago, my husband said to me "Hey, the Prime minister ..." and I interrupted him by saying "yeah, I read about it, he is offering his house to Syrian refugees".

He gave me a funny look and asked "How did you know?" (he knows I don't read the news and tend to complain when he turns the tv to watch the news because i find it too boring.) He paused for a bit and asked "Don't tell me you saw that on 9gag!?"

We laughed, and then I just slightly corrected him. "From Facebook."

So, on the usual "what-shall-i-do-with-my-time?" segment of day during my early mornings, I usually give a glance at Facebook to see if there's anything I should be keeping up with from back home. I actually saw the news about the PM from a post a friend of mine from Mexico posted, the funny thing is he is living in Austin, U.S.A and hasn't ever showed a particular interest in following Finnish subjects. No idea where he heard this from.

The original post I saw was -This One-

When I saw the post, i wondered about the veracity of it, since my friends tend to post a lot "articles" that are made by parody or fake news sites.

I googled just "Yle" and the first link I got was -This other One-

So after confirming that the news was in fact real, and after having a few laughs with my husband, I started realizing that in fact, the most important things I hear about, usually don't come from the news or traditional media.

I started thinking how i usually hear about important things from uncommon sources like 9gag.
According to Google "9GAG, Inc. operates an online platform and social media website. Users upload and share content either user-generated or found on other social media websites."
This social media site mostly has jokes, awkward experiences that users go through or things that users find interesting. These ideas or experiences are usually shared in the shape of images or memes.

My husband, on the other hand, is usually reading the news websites almost daily, or the tv segments. You would think he would find out about important things faster than me. But it seems that what seems to be important to the people, is usually posted BY the people way faster than the news can catch up on. In some cases I have noticed that I have heard about earthquakes, explosions, and/or rare cases, from social media, even days before they are in the news. I would guess that having teams of experts working on finding out what is going on in the world, you would get to the news faster, but that seems to have changed now.

Before I keep wondering out loud about the source of news, maybe I should stop and continue this little experiment some other time. Let's see if there is a discernible pattern here. Now I see the purpose of this exercise.