Absorbing news
I enjoyed watching TED hosted BBC World Debate yesterday—probably a re-run, because this is dated. Couple of personal stats on the subject1 to indulge myself:
- My last paid hardcopy newspaper subscription was in 1999.
- My last paid periodical subscription was fairly recent—in 2007.
- Television and the internet are two primary mediums I get my news from. Television for generic news; and internet for news and opinion on subjects I am interested in. I rarely see duplication of the same news in both mediums.
There are exceptions of course—like the entertainment and sports related news, for example, where I find Television more convenient as a medium than the internet. I have begun to avoid reading film reviews, or sports analysis written in excruciating detail in recent times. (It stops being fun—not to mention hurting eyes.) Apologies to Blogical Conclusion, but I’d rather watch Anupama Chopra’s half-hour segment, once a week, on NDTV for what’s on and what’s not.
- For where this post is coming from, you might want to read Clay Shirky’s What Newspapers and Journalism Need Now: Experimentation, Not Nostalgia. [←]