Letter to the Editors
Dear Editors,
Do you like being out of the loop? Is it fun to be clueless about current events? Of course not. Most people like to have a basic knowledge of what’s happening in the world.
So, you don’t want to be ignorant. Now, where do you get your news? Television has always been a good source for breaking news coverage, but you can’t get any depth from the “idiot box.”
Print news sources are great for in-depth coverage, but even daily newspapers cannot compete with up-to-the-minute television news. If you haven’t noticed, the Internet displaced television and print as the premier source of breaking and in-depth news coverage long ago.
Without question, the first site to check when you go online is the Drudge Report (www.drudgereport.com). This site is essentially just a collection of links to news stories from Web sites all around the world, but the Drudge Report is easily the best source of breaking news online. Last year, Drudge brought Bernard Goldberg,s “BIAS” to national prominence days before any national media outlet even acknowledged the book.
Recently, Drudge angered Fox’s Bill OReilly by reporting the popular television personality,s desire to host a radio talk show. O,Reilly had intended to keep the story a secret, but Drudge got the “scoop.”
Your next stop for news should be a national broadcast or print news service,s web site. Both CNN (www.cnn.com) and The Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com) keep the top stories prominent on the front page, and a quick glance at either site will get you caught up with what’s happening in the world. CNN, in particular, has excellent international news coverage. Best of all, these sites are completely free and represent just a small slice of the hundreds of fine news sources on the Internet.
Try an experiment: next week, devote ten minutes a day to reading the news online, and see if you can do without TV and the newspaper. I know I can.
Josh Martin
1611 Morgan Drive
Buckhead, GA 30625
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Feb 22 2002. Filed under Letters to the Editor.
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