I have a confession. I am a news whore. I love listening, reading, watching and talking about news. Current affairs, upcoming, could be. You name it, I have whored it.

Recently, I stopped. I am tired of listening to news about things across the planet and that for the most part have nothing to do with me and this news is usually depressing. Another reason is what news today is covering. For the need to continually produce relevant, exciting news we have stooped to new levels of low that I don’t want to partake in.

A recent example is Tiger Woods.
Sure, he drove into a fire hydrant at an odd time in the morning and may or may not have been drinking. I DON’T CARE. It doesn’t deserve this much coverage. There is WAY more important things to cover.

News has become a joke. News agencies don’t care about real, thought out, well informed thoughtful news. They don’t have the resources, time or readership. So what we get is weak snippets of shitty news.

I am still an information whore though so I have turned to things like on line books where an author covers one specific topic and delves into it.

Another thing that has consumed a lot of my time is “This American Life.”

I love it. It has seriously changed my news listening life.
There is a theme to each episode and a variety of stories on that theme. Its mostly true stories of everyday people, though not always. Each show is an hour long and I can’t get enough. I have listened to about 30 in the last few weeks and each one is getting better and better.

They cover politics and health care to marketing strategy and peoples obsessions with animals. It is so random. I love it.