Our various brainstorming sessions about shells has raised an interesting question to me about my consumption of the news. I, like just about everyone else in my generation, consume most of my news via the net, and while I still look at the Digmo page, and usually the Post-Dispatch page, I find my use of "traditional" media web sites to be declining.
One of the major reasons is that I don't see improvement in a lot of the web sites I used to follow almost religiously like ESPN or CNN. Unless I want to check a certain score or updated election data, I rarely, if ever visit these websites, instead choosing sites with more entertainment value or commentary.
Another reason is probably the election season, and the coverage of it. On CNN, you'll find two election stories on the front page: "Coulter wants Clinton over McCain" and "Clinton, Obama change tones at debate". While the news value of the first story is debatable, neither story provides much of anything in the way of new coverage. As candidates rehash their arguments in the latest of a long line of relatively meaningless debates, it seems the manufactured tension between Obama and Clinton is the only story that holds us over until we get actual numbers in next Tuesday. Far more entertaining and important political coverage exists on more non-traditional media sites.
Here are some cool links if you have a couple minutes to kill
LA Times Editor farewell remarks-- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/business/media/22papertext.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&sq=LA%20Times%20editor&st=nyt&scp=1&oref=slogin
Great Seattle Times coverage of the 2000 Washington Huskies team that will utterly depress you about college sports--
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/victoryandruins/
Progress Report- Changed my beat from health care to crime/immigration because my editor Phill said it would be the most important topic of session. Finished a story on cyber harrassment on Wednesday.
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