News

I kind of like Google News

Up until now, CNN has been my go-to news source, just out of sheer laziness. But I'm getting completely sick of them. They have ridiculous headlines--"Only the Lord knows if the miners are alive!" (I don't enjoy the turn-of-the-last-century sensationalistic flavor of that, nor do I like the reference to the LORD in a supposedly secular news source) and just a lot of fluff crap besides. And almost every story has to have a quote by someone talking about The Lord. Guess what? That's not news! THE LORD IS NOT NEWS!

I have yet to read about the assault rifles in a CNN headline (maybe because the pre-adolescents there think guns are oooky), but I do know that someone smuggled a monkey on a plane in his ponytail and a girl killed her father in a filthy apartment and this is a TV headline (note the exclaimation point like it's E! Entertainment, not CNN):

Spice Girl Melanie Brown -- in a paternity battle with Eddie Murphy! She breaks her silence on what she wants from him... in her first TV interview. Tonight, 9 ET.


Squeeeeee!!!!!!! Said the 11-year-old girl who wrote that.

Jamie says he likes the CNN breaking news emails he gets, but other than that, he never goes there. He likes the NY Times, and he said, "the writing for the business/news/health section is very different from the writing in the science/technology section. The science writing is very obviously supposed to be less formal and more breezy and fun. That amuses me. It's like omg you guys, let's talk about quarks!!1!"


I don't like the NY times because I have it in my head (fairly or not) that they're not reputable. I also have it in my head that the Boston Globe is hopelessly left-slanting and all the Fox news peices are written by Rush Limbaugh and not when he's not high.