Apple Bonkers (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} applebonkers) wrote,@ 2008-03-14 22:29:00 |
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Karen should be happy to know that I intend to keep up with her weekend assignments! This is #207 but for me it's #1. Well, #2. Somewhere in the archives another weekend assignment post dwells, although that one wasn't Karen's.
Weekend Assignment #207: Are you a news junkie, or not so much? Do you seek out news on tv, radio, in newspapers or online, or are you sick of the endless rehashing of the same issues? I realize it's all a continuum, from "I never watch the news" to "I keep it on all day, and read several newspapers" (or whatever). Maybe you vacillate, depending on what's going on in the world or your own life. What's your current level of interest?
I think it's very important to be an informed citizen. I don't always want to listen to the news. Sometimes it upsets me. Sometimes it bores mes. But I do want to keep a pulse on what's going on in the area, the state, the nation, the world.
My main source of news is the radio, usually KGO, which is my alarm clock in the morning and often on in the car. I'd say my second source of news is the Web. I used to get the newspaper delivered, but that began to overwhelm my apartment, where I don't have an efficient way to recycle (and damned if I'm not going to find some way to recycle them). My TV is rarely used, and only for Jeopardy, Ebert & Roeper, and Frasier reruns. And yes, I do vacillate, pretty much depending on how packed my schedule is. I'm pretty much always interested though. Because my goal in life is to know absolutely everything. :)
Currently my information retrieval class is having some discussion on how customizable your information is every day, your RSS feed can bring you only what you want it too, you can make your AOL homepage display entertainment news only, etc. On the way to the sports section in the paper (I use the sports section in my example because a lot of people get the paper mostly for that - although I sure didn't) you may stumble across something in the business section you find enlightening, that wouldn't come to you if you subsribed to an "all sports" publication.
It is truly becoming an option to "just see what you want to see" (nowhere man, can you see me at all?) This can be a rather disturbing thought. Still, I think we can and should use the tools of the Internet age to broaden our minds and experiences, not narrow them.
Extra Credit: Is there a particular news story you have been following recently?
This actually hasn't been in the news much, and I hope it will increase in visibility, but I'm very interested in following the campaign from Californians for Humane Farms.
Weekend Assignment #207: Are you a news junkie, or not so much? Do you seek out news on tv, radio, in newspapers or online, or are you sick of the endless rehashing of the same issues? I realize it's all a continuum, from "I never watch the news" to "I keep it on all day, and read several newspapers" (or whatever). Maybe you vacillate, depending on what's going on in the world or your own life. What's your current level of interest?
I think it's very important to be an informed citizen. I don't always want to listen to the news. Sometimes it upsets me. Sometimes it bores mes. But I do want to keep a pulse on what's going on in the area, the state, the nation, the world.
My main source of news is the radio, usually KGO, which is my alarm clock in the morning and often on in the car. I'd say my second source of news is the Web. I used to get the newspaper delivered, but that began to overwhelm my apartment, where I don't have an efficient way to recycle (and damned if I'm not going to find some way to recycle them). My TV is rarely used, and only for Jeopardy, Ebert & Roeper, and Frasier reruns. And yes, I do vacillate, pretty much depending on how packed my schedule is. I'm pretty much always interested though. Because my goal in life is to know absolutely everything. :)
Currently my information retrieval class is having some discussion on how customizable your information is every day, your RSS feed can bring you only what you want it too, you can make your AOL homepage display entertainment news only, etc. On the way to the sports section in the paper (I use the sports section in my example because a lot of people get the paper mostly for that - although I sure didn't) you may stumble across something in the business section you find enlightening, that wouldn't come to you if you subsribed to an "all sports" publication.
It is truly becoming an option to "just see what you want to see" (nowhere man, can you see me at all?) This can be a rather disturbing thought. Still, I think we can and should use the tools of the Internet age to broaden our minds and experiences, not narrow them.
Extra Credit: Is there a particular news story you have been following recently?
This actually hasn't been in the news much, and I hope it will increase in visibility, but I'm very interested in following the campaign from Californians for Humane Farms.
