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I think that a major part of people's lives are also some of the simplest, which includes birthdays. 2020 changed the way people celebrated these occasions, and for some it made it more monumental. Simply put, 2020 changed some of the things that people loved, and they were forced to adapt quickly.

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The climate strike of 2020 was one of the more positive aspects of the year since it showed young adults taking a day off from school to protest for the climate issues that mattered to them. It is important to note that 2020 was a horrible year when it came to growing global temperature, and these protests show that the people are ready to fight to save their planet.

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Explanation for "Rising Iran-U.S Tensions"

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Explanation for "Rising Iran-U.S Tensions"

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In early 2020 no one could have expected that the country was about to go on lockdown, yet everyone was fully aware of the tensions with the United States and Iran. Considering the death of general Qasem Soleimani, it raised tensions and caused more eyes to turn to a potential crisis in the middle east.

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Explanation for "Epiphany by Taylor Swift"

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Explanation for "Epiphany by Taylor Swift"

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With all of the news coverage that easily stressed people out in 2020, people were looking for ways to cope with this new stress. Music was one of the most popular coping mechanisms, as it helped to take the mind of off some of these stressful topics. With this song the writer felt an internal connection, and it provided relief as well.

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Explanation for "Black Lives Matter Protests Around the World"

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Explanation for "Black Lives Matter Protests Around the World"

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2020 was full of controversy, especially with after the tragic killing of George Floyd by Minnesota policemen. The fact that these protests were occurring throughout the world shows that it was indeed wrong, and that progress is needed to fix these racial issues.

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I think mentioning a laptop in this collection is super important since pretty much all students in New York City were doing remote learning in some shape or form. Laptops were especially common since they are portable and easier to use than other computers. It is hard to go over 2020 without mentioning a laptop, cellphone or computer since the year revolved around these things.

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I think the increase in viewership for news channels is important to mention since the coronavirus pandemic almost brought this channels "back to life". More people ended up tuning in more information and statistics, and it helped the news industry regain some of its footing. Most of the profit used to be devoted to morning shows, yet now it would be distributed more equally.

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March 11, 2020, was days before everything would change but I didn’t know it at the time. I woke up and it felt like any other birthday, there was talk about the pandemic among my friends but we were sure it wouldn’t affect us, we were wrong. I remember it as one of the best days in my life because I was careless which isn’t necessarily a good thing but it was nice knowing on that day I didn’t worry much about covid. I was flooded with food gifts from my friends we all shared the chips and candy. Looking back it wasn’t a good decision on my end as cases had appeared in New York and our hands were not washed or sanitized. I remember talking to my mom about inviting my friends over on the weekend at the end of the day, she ended up saying no which surprised me because I usually had them over. I think at the end of the day I felt that things would start to change but I didn’t know it would happen two days after.

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In Early 2020 everyone was almost sure there was going to be some sort of war between Iran and the US because of the ongoing sort of battle they had were Iran had sent rockets to US military bases and the death of general Quasem Soleimani.

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A song that really mattered to me over 2020 was the Taylor Swift song, Epiphany. On top of giving my sister and I another area to bond, strengthening our relationship that was very difficult being locked inside with her for 12 months, it was also a song that summed up many of the thoughts I was having about the pandemic. From the line “just one single glimpse of relief” to “With you, I serve; With you, I fall down,” the song was full of lines that helped me think about my own thoughts and feelings during a pandemic. Each day, you think, this might be the one. This might be the night I sleep until the end of the year. But we have to live through this. But we have our families, we have a house, we have so much that many don’t, and we’ll stand together, or risk all falling down.

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Taylor Swift – epiphany (Official Lyric Video)

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Black Lives Matter Protests Around the World

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Black Lives Matter Protests Around the World

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As today marks the 1 year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd we must not forget what we fought for in 2020 and what we are still fighting for as a world. For centuries Black lives have been oppressed and as such systems of ignorance and bias have been built against the black community; the death of not only George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmuad Arbery, and many more Kindled the flame of a movement to fight against corrupt and prejudice systems known as the Black Lives Matters movement. 2020 was a momentous year, one of up rising, change, accountability, loss, and love, I chose this video for I believe that it embodies the realities we faced in 2020, and was a video that I thoroughly enjoyed and could relate to.

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Black Lives Matter Protests Around the World

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I went to the climate strike in nyc in 2020, due to... complicated circumstances, i do not have any photos of me attending it, so i have a sign that stood out to me off google. In my opinion saving the planet is the most important thing we can do as humans, it should at least be the one thing that unifies us as humans. it isnt, instead us younger people have to fight for the entire species, wich is disappointing, but hopeful, its hopeful because we are the ones who get to decide, or at least have a say in who gets to decide. in the end, we have one home planet. maybe it will all get nuked to dust. who knows, but we can maybe preserve it for a little longer. and that makes me feel a little less pessimistic.

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The one item I used more than anything in 2020 is my laptop. With red eyes and a headache I can tell you that I am on it 24/7. When we were in quarantine, social media, video calling apps, and google classroom were all I knew. The only way I could talk to family and friends was over the phone. Even my school life got moved online and with multiple hours of school a day and a few hours of homework to add onto that, my whole life had basically moved online. Of course, we're very lucky to live in a time where we have all these resources. If we didn't have all this technology, we would all have had a way more miserable time away from everyone and would have been set back in school or work by a whole year. Of course, there were some negatives to this as well. Being on my computer so much, I always get headaches and my eyes sometimes hurt from staring at the screen for so long. Also, although I'm happy my education hasn't been interrupted, online school is tough and this has been my hardest year yet. I usually pride myself in that I have done well in school. However, going into high school and ALSO doing it online, I've really struggled more than ever. Not only is it hard for students but I've also seen teachers struggle a bit too. They were also thrown into this new world of virtual learning and its tough for them. I've seen my parents struggle too. Overall it was a hard year but I am glad I had my laptop to help me keep connected to the world.

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The Evening News Is Back

This article was mainly about more people watching the news when corona-virus cases started increasing. Before the corona-virus the network newscasts had not attracted that kind of audience in years. Most of the time the evening news cast was not was not watched by the working age people anymore so most of the profit made from news media was devoted to the morning shows. As corona-virus cases started to spread and become more of an issue all over the world in 2020, the news network had a massive increase of people watching the news. On average there were 12 million viewers watching the news. Tuning into the news was the new normal for everybody around the world as people watched news channels trying to find accurate facts and calm their fears and panic.

The quote I chose was “when people are fearful and looking for trusted sources, they’re like, ‘Oh, yeah, let me tune in at 6:30 Eastern, because I know I’m going to get just the facts.”(Koblin, 2020) I feel like this quote is really significant because it shows how much of an influence the news has on people's mindset. When people are in a state of fear they look for sources to trust and go too. During the Corona-virus many people were in a state of panic and fear, so they looked at the news as some kind of comfort and trust worthy thing. At a time where fake news was so common, it is important to check your facts and make sure you are spreading the right kind of information. Many people trusted their favorite news channels with facts and information about the corona-virus that they were unaware about, so they just started watching the news more.

Title: The Evening News Is Back

Author: John Koblin

Date: 3/24/2020

Retrieved from the New York Times

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The network newscasts had lost relevance, thanks to cable and digital media. Now, the coronavirus has put tens of millions of viewers back in the 6:30 p.m. habit.

"Nothing else matters right now," the "NBC Nightly News" anchor, Lester Holt, said in an interview. "This is the story of our lifetimes." Credit... NBC

Ten million people watched "The Voice" last week, the biggest audience for the NBC reality show in a year.

It was no match for another nonfiction program: the nightly newscast.

As Americans, housebound because of the coronavirus crisis, watch more TV than usual, they have returned to the network news programs that have not been at the center of the national conversation for years.

ABC's "World News Tonight" and the "NBC Nightly News" had an average of about 12 million viewers for their newscasts last week, among the biggest totals for all network shows, according to Nielsen. That's roughly the same as the average for "Monday Night Football."

The audience for "World News Tonight" was its largest since 2000, and the number of viewers watching "NBC Nightly News" was the most the show had drawn since 2005.

"Nothing else matters right now," Lester Holt, the anchor of "NBC Nightly News," said in an interview. "This is the story of our lifetimes."

Sober and straightforward, evening news programs were a chief information delivery system for decades, led by stolid anchors who guided viewers through triumphs and tragedies alike.

But they long ago lost their agenda-setting influence, supplanted by cable news networks that performed roughly the same function 24 hours a day. And they have been pushed further into the background in recent years by digital media, with its minute-by-minute chronicling of events.

The pandemic has brought back millions of viewers. For now, at least, a concise, crisply produced news program, devoid of the punditry and histrionics typical of many cable broadcasts, seems to match the national moment.

The viewership of "CBS Evening News," anchored by Norah O'Donnell, was up 21 percent last week. Credit... CBS

"I think the evening news plays a public service role, and now we're playing a public health role," said Norah O'Donnell, the anchor of "CBS Evening News."

In all, an average of 32.2 million people watched the evening newscasts last week, a 42 percent increase from a year earlier. Younger people have tuned in, too: There was a 67 percent rise among adults between the ages of 25 and 54, according to Nielsen.

The network newscasts have not attracted that kind of audience in years. While the Trump presidency has been a boon for the cable news networks - which have consistently set ratings records since 2017 - it has given no such lift to the evening shows.

For the 2018-19 television season, viewership dropped 3 percent. Among the young adult viewers prized by advertisers, there was a 6 percent decline. That trend has been apparent for a while, a steady fall from the days of Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather and Peter Jennings, when evening newscasts were a must-watch for roughly 40 million American households.

"It's been a very steep drop-off, and a generational drop-off, too," said Mark Lukasiewicz, a former NBC News executive and the dean of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University. "The evening newscasts aren't part of the daily diet of working-age people anymore. They're just not part of it."

As the programs have lost their top-of-the-media-heap status, television executives have devoted more resources to the main profit centers of the network news divisions, the morning shows. Whether the 6:30 p.m. programs can maintain the audience they have brought aboard in a time of crisis is an open question.

David Muir, the anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight," said the evening newscasts provided a valuable service in a fraught time.

"This is a new normal, a sort of redefining of American life and who knows for how long," he said. "I do feel the responsibility, more than ever before, that we don't add to the noise. We have to have a place where people cut through it all and find the facts."

"CBS Evening News" had 7.6 million viewers on average for last week's newscasts, a rise of 21 percent. Among 25- to 54-year-olds, the numbers were more striking: a 30 percent surge.

"We play it right down the middle every night," Ms. O'Donnell said. "I think in this era, when people are fearful and looking for trusted sources, they're like, 'Oh, yeah, let me tune in at 6:30 Eastern, because I know I'm going to get just the facts.'"

The networks have taken advantage of the renewed appetite by making their shows more readily available. NBC has moved a re-airing of its newscast to a 7:30 p.m. slot in several major markets, which has added several hundred thousand viewers to its audience, according to Nielsen, and ABC has broadcast "World News Tonight" live at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

They are pulling it off with skeleton crews as many of their staff members work from home.

Mr. Holt, of NBC, was at home during a phone interview for this article on Monday, his dog barking in the background, in keeping with the network's plan to stagger the number of people at the program's 30 Rockefeller Plaza office throughout the day.

NBC had also fashioned a home studio in his Lower Manhattan apartment, just in case. And, indeed, a few hours after the interview, he anchored the broadcast from home for the first time.

When reflecting on the robust public interest in his show, Mr. Holt mentioned a lunch his wife had made for him recently: tomato soup and grilled cheese.

"Comfort food," he said. "We're all craving comfort. And whether it's tomato soup and grilled cheese, or watching a broadcast that you remember growing up with as a kid that your parents watched, I think it's all part of the same thing. What do I trust? What feels normal? What feels OK and comforting?"

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The Evening News Is Back (Published 2020)

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The network newscasts had lost relevance, thanks to cable and digital media. Now, the coronavirus has put tens of millions of viewers back in the 6:30 p.m. habit. Ten million people watched "The Voice" last week, the biggest audience for the NBC reality show in a year.