I’m a journalism major, and I don’t watch the news.

I’m even going to go out on a limb and guess that you probably don’t watch it either.

Still, most college students seem to be up-to-date on the latest happenings; we’re always discussing one major disaster or another.

So, where are we getting this information?

My self-realization came while watching “Saturday Night Live” on Hulu a few weeks ago: “Weekend Update” with Seth Meyers is my CNN.

Steven Colbert, Jon Stewart, and others alike combine to make up the catalog of newsworthy events in my mind.

I know I am not the only collegiate student out there who does not rely on major news networks to stay aware of the world around me.

Recently, while teasing a friend who didn’t know specific details about the oil spill, another friend, who was doing most of the teasing, piped up and said, “Well, I didn’t even know it happened until I read about it in French on my French exam.”

This might seem obsolete, but it’s not. I’m so sick of hearing people complain about the slant of one news station over another, but no one I know is even paying attention.

It seems like depending where you are (at home or at school) it’s either the cool thing to be into The Huffington Post or Fox and Friends, but when we really look at it, no one gets up every morning, crawls out of their lofted bed, turns on Fox News or waits for their web browser to slowly load Arianna Huffington’s blog.

It’s not only impractical, it’s downright stupid.

College students are too busy with classes, homework, readings, exams, and parties to care who’s running for the governor of Idaho.

And when we do have free time, we don’t want to waste it on boring news anchors who have trouble reading off a teleprompter.

We turn to laughter.

That’s why “Saturday Night Live,” “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” remain popular among college students.

We get entertained; we get informed; we get ammo for the next political debate with our parents, but we also get a funny link we can send to a friend.

Along with these shows, the Internet has also been significant in the collegiate loss of news watching.

My homepage is set to MSN only because I know if I set mine to Facebook, I will never get anything done online.

I try to make it a point to browse the list of news stories before I continue on with my daily dose of social networking.

That’s the journalist in me.

For most of you, I’m sure you are directly sent to Facebook or Twitter as soon as you open up your browser, but the genius of these sites (in regard to staying informed) is the ability for your few friends who do browse news sites to post links to interesting articles or to create poignant statuses.

More often than not, a friend has told me what is going on in the world through virtual reality.

I click on a link that takes me to a website which can forward me to a video.

Maybe I’ll send that video to a friend who posts it on her blog. By the end of the chain, news is spread.

No one cares if the news came from a liberal or conservative viewpoint.

No one cares if the news is biased.

All that matters is that we’re informed about what is happening in the world.

Even if we don’t catch the small things, Seth Meyers never fails to let me know about the major things.

And for all of you who don’t take French, there is a massive oil spill. Just in case you missed it.