Re: access to news
Father Zossima (zossima@hotmail.com)
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 22:19:52 -0700 (PDT)
i think i know what you mean; though i often lament wryly how americans
usually dont really know a damn thing about their own country, let alone
the rest of the world, i find i am often just as bad. when i make my
daily commute to school each morning on the bus, i could easily pick up
a newspaper, but usually am too immersed in a book, be it schoolwork or
something 'soul-feeding' like my tattered old copy of nine stories. but
when i do pick up the LA times or some such thing, i often regret it
almost as much as the rare times i catch 5 minutes of crap on TV. is it
just me, or does the past few months or so seem (especially) terribly
distasteful for the media?
--nathanael
(a comp.sci. major, for what it's worth)
>>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
>
>
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