On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > It has been almost 4 months since I wrote this. It looks like the pack > has decided to move on to other things. Since we don't read any more > about this it must mean the problem has been solved for good.
Have you ever tried going a few weeks without consuming news or analysis or news media of any form - I mean cold turkey, no way to whet your appetite. No TV, no radio, no blogs, no podcasts, no magazines, no newspapers. It's remarkably productive. As a side effect of course you will be exempt from most hallway conversations since you'll have no idea what they are talking about; but it's a relief to not care about anything other than what immediately concerns you. It's great for self reflection and analysis. And then you wonder, given most of the things we read about we can't control in the least or prepare for, why do we consume news? Reporting in a pack makes it possible to give the news audience something to collectively worry about. If every newspaper reported about something different then hallway conversations would mostly consist of people who have no idea what each other is talking about. Cheeni
