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A lot of controversies exist over whether we should get information from various sources or just one sources. However, I think we are just fine with one sources because, for example, internet can provide us various information, and because looking up information via several sources costs time, and is tiresome.
To start with, I think using internet is just enough to get information. Modern days, provides many information with many shapes-for example, radio, TV, newspaper-, but since internet can provide us various forms of information, there is no need to look up for information from varying sources. The internet can provide us information with many forms like video, sound, image, words. I think this aspect of internet solves every redundant media of internet(well, at least for young people like us). To be specific, a research conducted in Yale University by professor John Holstein indicates that forms of information have changed along the change of generation. For example, the graph of the paper showed that our parents relied upon televisions, and radios, and newspapers as a source of information, but our generation can get information only from the internet. This need for various media is being reduced, which concurs with my point.
Secondly, I think we don't need various sources to get information, because I think 'foraging' for information from various sources are just waste of time and waste of energy. This is because we have to add up many information from various sources to picture decent quality of information. But if we use one source information, we don't have to work on adding up informations. You might ask that the information can be biased, but I think the internet can solve this problem either. The internet can save time and energy. For example, I was reaserching about various taboos related to food, which is about cultural enthropology. I had to look up dozens of books to get accurate informations, but when I searched about taboos of food in wikipedia, it provided me purely condensed form of information, just what I needed. So looking up internet helped me greatly saving all those times and efforts I would have spent foraging for informations from books.
In summary, I think getting informations from one source is more beneficail because, first, we don't have to look up information from various sources and second, getting information from one source can save energy and time.
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