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(inspired by a recent post of Illustrator's)
I grew up in a news based household - we got the daily paper, we always watched the 6 pm local news and the 7 pm national news with Peter Jennings.
I gre up listening to Mr. Jennings, and I was much saddened when he passed away. A voice from my childhood had been extinguished, and with it, a voice that I felt I could trust.
When I moved out, and to college, I lost that news schedule - the world became too complicated, I had too many choices for where to get my news. Everyone seemed to contradict each other, so eventually I threw up my hands in apathy and ignored the news. I walked away, and hoped the world wouldn't follow me. I spent a great deal of time ignoring the news. If I didn't know about it, It didn't affect me.
Then I met this man named Spider. And desire for news started to tickle the back of my head.
Then I met a man named Hunter. Crazy as a fruit bat, and you had to take his writing with a grain of salt, (or a grain of "insert choice of illegal substance here.") But in reading his accounts of old news, it gave strength to the desire to know what was going on.
After that I was introduced to a man named John, and his good friend Steve. They give me news of the day, but they make it stand on it's head - they say what we're all thinking, and spin it in a way that we can laugh through the tears of frustration that today's news often gives us.
Just recently, I met a man named Keith. (This is ironic in my world.) This man has given me back the news, and given it a dept of passion that hadn't existed in my news, no, in my politics, to date. His commentaries are thoughtful, well spoken, and direct. I urge anyone looking to find someone who seems to speak honestly, to watch this guy, listen, and maybe remember waht he has to say later.
For more, please see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/
The times, they sure are interesting, if nothing else.
- k.
I grew up in a news based household - we got the daily paper, we always watched the 6 pm local news and the 7 pm national news with Peter Jennings.
I gre up listening to Mr. Jennings, and I was much saddened when he passed away. A voice from my childhood had been extinguished, and with it, a voice that I felt I could trust.
When I moved out, and to college, I lost that news schedule - the world became too complicated, I had too many choices for where to get my news. Everyone seemed to contradict each other, so eventually I threw up my hands in apathy and ignored the news. I walked away, and hoped the world wouldn't follow me. I spent a great deal of time ignoring the news. If I didn't know about it, It didn't affect me.
Then I met this man named Spider. And desire for news started to tickle the back of my head.
Then I met a man named Hunter. Crazy as a fruit bat, and you had to take his writing with a grain of salt, (or a grain of "insert choice of illegal substance here.") But in reading his accounts of old news, it gave strength to the desire to know what was going on.
After that I was introduced to a man named John, and his good friend Steve. They give me news of the day, but they make it stand on it's head - they say what we're all thinking, and spin it in a way that we can laugh through the tears of frustration that today's news often gives us.
Just recently, I met a man named Keith. (This is ironic in my world.) This man has given me back the news, and given it a dept of passion that hadn't existed in my news, no, in my politics, to date. His commentaries are thoughtful, well spoken, and direct. I urge anyone looking to find someone who seems to speak honestly, to watch this guy, listen, and maybe remember waht he has to say later.
For more, please see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/
The times, they sure are interesting, if nothing else.
- k.
