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| Week 58 / Prompt 2 - Do you enjoy keeping up to date with local and global news, why or why not? At this stage in my life, I do like to keep up with local and global news. I get the majority of my news from NPR, fed through my local city's public radio. I have a long commute, and listening to the news radio every morning on my way in gets me my daily intake of news stories. I like NPR because it does a fairly good job of covering stories from several angles, so it isn't especially biased (possibly a little on the liberal side if any). It also covers political, local, and international stories. Granted, I still haven't heard NPR talk about Iceland's political revolt, but I have heard about Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Ukraine, Russia, China, Malaysia, Africa, Mexico, Canada, Colombia, and so many other countries. I love hearing from Cokie Roberts on Monday mornings about the political happenings in Washington. And while some of the local stories are rather uninteresting, it is still good to have them covered and know how well, or how terribly, my local officials are doing. I don't subscribe to cable, so I don't watch any of the television networks. But all of those are so heavily biased they are painful to watch anyway. I also don't subscribe to any newspapers, online or paper. Collin asks me what I do with the information I obtain by listening to NPR each morning. My honest answer most of the time is... nothing. When election years come around, I always vote Democrat, so it's not like hearing about how awful some Democrat may be is going to change my mind. And there is pretty much no way some Republican could be so awesome I'd want to vote for him/her. And NPR doesn't usually give me enough information to be able to vote knowledgeably in a Democratic Primary. I'd have to go online to find real information for that sort of thing. (Also, living in a staunchly RED state makes voting almost superfluous, but I do anyway.) It does keep me up to date on big global disaster situations, which I am often curious about. I've kept up on the Ebola epidemic, even if most of America has forgotten about it now that no more cases exist on our soil. I don't know what I do with the information - but I am happier knowing it. Living in a bubble of just my day-to-day just seems.. pointless. Oh wait - I know one thing I do with that information. I have discussions with my dad about it. So I can feel knowledgeable when I talk with him about politics. That's what I do with it! |
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