If 你’ve participated in the jury selection process, 你’re certainly familiar with the questions the judge asks to determine whether 你 might bring a bias to the case. I’ve sat through jury selection — or voir dire — four, maybe five times in my life.

Every time I’ve done it, I think how exhausting it must get for the judge to keep asking those same questions before every trial: “What are 你r hobbies?” “Do 你 have a bumper sticker on 你r car?” “Where do 你 get 你r news?”

I remember one time when I served in Hudson County, New Jersey, an older man answered that last question, “的 Journal.” When the judge asked if he meant 《华尔街日报》, he responded, “No. 的 泽西杂志!” 有几个人大声笑了起来。

So yesterday, when I found myself once again sitting through the questioning, it occurred to me the answers to “Where do 你 get 你r news?” have changed dramatically in the 20+ years I’ve been called upon for jury duty. Sure, some jurors said they get their news from local television stations — a lot more than I would have predicted, actually — and others mentioned daily newspapers. But most gave answers like, “的 news finds me,” or “Whatever people email me.” Also popular were, “My phone,” or “的 web.”

What was surprising was that the judge didn’t follow up on those generic answers to ask for clarification. Saying 你 get 你r news over 你r phone offers no visibility into whether 你 are bringing a bias into the courtroom — except, perhaps, that 你 prefer mobile over desktop.

这些问题什么时候会演变成2015年人们消费新闻的方式？ 即使法官要求澄清，我认为这个问题已经变得太难了，大多数人都无法自发地回答。 We may know we’ve read a story or watched a 视频, but we struggle to recall the source because of the many ways content is served up to us.

Quick: Where do 你 get 你r news?