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What kind of news cycle are you in?
So my parents came down to visit this weekend. They're retired, and they have cable television. To say they indulge themselves in the 24-hour news cycle is probably not going far enough. They were asking us again and again about supposed news stories we just hadn't heard about. At one point, I stopped to explain that no, we don't live under a rock, we just prefer to get our news from NPR or the BBC or the New York Times. We don't watch the local news, nor do we have cable. The only thing remotely approaching cable news that we do manage to watch on occasion is The Daily Show, because it's on their website. Neither of us work in a situation where we're sitting on a computer all day, so we're not constantly looking at headlines, either. When I do watch news, I watch the BBC World News or Newshour on public television.
How about yourself? Do you indulge in the 24/7 news cycle present today? Do you watch headlines on your computer at work? Or do you unplug yourself from the news?
Do you also notice a difference between what is broadcasted on the cable news networks--what they think is news--and what makes news in news sources such as the NYTimes and BBC?
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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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