On 8/27/2011 10:18 AM, Paul Braun wrote:
> Dear CNN: if there really isn't 24 hours of news, then please play old
> Roadrunner cartoons.
To make that, or some equivalent, happen, all you and a lot of other folks need
do is turn it off. We watch essentially
no TV and listen to no radio news. The vast majority isn't anyway, news, that
is. It's mostly a form of 'entertainment'
designed to maintain our artificial cultural climate of fear.
> Do you really need to send the cub reporter out to stand in the hurricane?
>
> Seriously. We're adults. It's a hurricane. With high winds and rain. We get
> that part. Sending a satellite truck to North Carolina isn't going to show us
> anything we don't already know.
So why do you watch?
> I'm begging you. Roadrunner. Or Bugs Bunny. Please.
You can do that all by yourself.
What I'm trying to figure out is how to get just the actual news that's of use
to me if I stop the newspaper. A
newspaper is pretty good, as I can quickly scan headlines to choose stories of
actual interest, and stop reading as soon
as I discover what I need or that the story isn't useful or entertaining.
Locally, the problem is that the SF Chronicle's business plan for survival
seems to involve jacking subscription rates
WAY up and relying on lower volume with higher prices. I went along at first,
but now, as inserts and ad pages are up a
lot from the beginning, the sub rates stay up. Also, I'm really tired of the
heavy coverage of SF news and politics and
relatively light coverage of the rest of the region.
Then we've been and will be traveling quite a bit. One isn't supposed to stop
the paper, as apparently some leaks tell
thieves who isn't home (I do have good reason to completely trust my delivery
person). I have neighbors who are happy to
collect the papers for us. But going through a few days papers, or a month's
worth in the fall, I realize even more how
little of the content is really useful to me.
Trouble is, I don't know how to conveniently get just what I need on the web.
There's a decent local weekly on the web,
but it doesn't cover most state, national and international news.
No News Moose
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