I’ve recently begun reading a vast quantity of blogs via Google Reader. I’ve noticed that many of them are a complete waste of time, especially the local news. It will give a snippet of some story about some random guy getting some sentence at a trial I never heard about for some very petty crime. Also a waste of time is any story related to some pop culture star. While I do want to be able to converse well with the culture and be relevant (hence the name of this blog), I struggle with the pettiness of some of it. Case in point: the TV show Extra. I feel like I lose one IQ point for every second I watch it. Anyone feel the same way about this?
June 12, 2008
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Crystal Corn Said,
You blog?! ooh! I’m excited!
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Crystal Corn Said,
i’m totally with you! (now that i actually read your post instead of just being excited you have a blog). I could rant about this for hours. The reason news shows report pettiness is that it sells…and the reason it sells is the American public is too uneducated about world affairs to be anything but apathetic. One of the reason that I dread the beginning of each school year is that i have to give up last year’s kids, who’ve really started to have some good solid discussions, and start with a new group of i-don’t-cares and turn them into holy-crap-why-didn’t-anyone-tell-me-this-befores. It’s a process.
So, in response…amen.
