On Dec 1, 2006, at 1:30 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
I don't watch any sort of TV news, I can't stand the sound of such
programming. Seriously.
No disagreement there. It is "cacaphony" -- sh*t-sound.
I get all my Brittany Spears news from the front pages of the
tabloids they annoyingly stock at the check-out at the grocery
store (I am a compulsive reader, put text in front of me and I read
it, I can't stop myself), and I get my *real* news from my
newspaper and various people who blog. I'm sure I have a skewed
view. :)
We all have a skewed view: it's the only kind there is. There's this
bizarre idea afoot that anyone or any organization can be objective,
which is hogwash.
One of my antidotes to the problem you describe (put text before you
and you read it) is my Blackberry, where I can use the browser to
bring up The Onion or archived New Yorker articles (or whatever) and
read them instead of whatever is demanding my attention while I wait.
I don't know jack-sh*t about Britney or Lindsay Lohan or TomKat or
any of the other dozen or two bunch of idiots the Big Media
Conglomerates insist are interesting.
Dave
PS: I have even stopped listening to NPR in the car -- on balance,
it's too much "cacaphony" for me, despite its fine moments. Instead,
I'm now listening to Audiobooks, which I get via Simply Audiobooks,
which is a kind of Netflix for audiobooks. Right now, I'm listening
to Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without
Thinking". I told my 9-year-old about it, and we've stopped listening
to a 9-disc set of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and are listening to
Gladwell instead. It's cool that Ryan is so interested in how the
mind works.
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