Re: access to news
Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:56:25 -0500
>Yes, I suppose time is an issue, but access isn't. Newspapers are free
>in
>the library, student subscriptions can be had for the price of a weekly
>Microbrew, TVs are ubiquitious, All Things Considered is on the left
>end
>of the radio dial, and cnn.com and nytimes.com are just mouseclicks
>away.
>
>I'm not sure what distresses me more: That people my age are so
>uninformed
>about and uninterested in current events, or the fact that most people
>my
>age get their news from Tabitha, Kurt and their local news. Sigh.
>
when i say i don't have time to watch the news, i mean i don't have time
to watch tv. i don't watch tv. if i did have the time to watch the
news, i would spend it reading salinger or whitman or hemingway or
somebody else which would feed my soul a lot more than whatever crappy
thing happened to people today. i know i should be more informed about
the world and its goings-on, but i'm really quite wrapped up in other
things. i guess it comes down to a matter of values, which, while not
arbitrary, are not constructive fair game for arbitration.--matt