Missing News

I no longer subscribe to the Lubbock Avalanche Journal. I would like to, but they have priced themselves out of my acceptable bracket. They have sent me some "offers" for a few months, but I do not see the point of subscribing for 3 months at a reasonable price and then being expected to continue at the exorbitant price. 

So, I miss out on the news.  I forget to check their online website.  I try to watch the local news in the morning and evening, and even the "late night" version, which airs at 10 PM, and which I do not consider late night.

I subscribe daily to the headlines from The Austin Statesman and The New York Times.  I try to log on regularly to the online version of The Greenfield Recorder, which is the newspaper for the home where I grew up, for the headlines, and to check the obituaries.  This keeps me connected to my past.

For years and years, I used to check the obituaries in the Lubbock Avalanche Journal. But even before I stopped taking the daily paper, I stopped checking the obituaries, probably in about 2008 or so.  It was too depressing

I really enjoy the NPR news shows:  "Morning Edition" http://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/ or "All Things Considered"  http://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/  I usually listen to these during "drive time" going to and from work. Sometimes, I will turn on the radio at home to listen to something on NPR.

I am amazed about the way the news is presented.  Sometimes a story I hear one day that is presented the next day by a different source as "fresh information."  And, of course, it makes me less trustful of the source.

I have long said that I get much of my news from The Weather Channel http://www.weather.com/.   And, I do. If there is a major national or international story breaking, The Weather Channel will air it with a weather angle. And sometimes, that is not much of a stretch. 

Sometimes, I feel like I am so on top of the news of the world. Sometimes, I feel that I am very isolated.

I hate that the news is depressing. But I want to keep apprised of what is happening in the world.