Another part of my monster post, was that I did some thinking on how I got my “world news.” Although I try to keep up, I’m not really a news junkie, and I’m politically aware and active, but I wouldn’t mind not having to deal with all that if I could just sort of be left alone [Give me the ability to work and make a decent living, the freedom to do what I want, balanced against the rights of others to do what they want, and you can have the rest. I have the former now, but the latter seems to be causing such a fuss].
In any case, as my dream world does not exist, I’m left having to keep up with what’s going on. I probably should read the EFF headlines more than I do (same w/ the ACLU), but in any case, most of my initial views of news is filtered, ususally through blogs or lists (Politech, Crypto-Gram, etc.)I read, or /., or k5 or occasionally mefi. When the spirit moves me, or when something interesting goes down, I will go to places like the IMC, Disinfo, Alternewswire, and Cryptome to balance off anything in the mainstream media (The Guardian, IHT, BBC, NYT, Yahoo, and if need be, MSNBC and CNN). There are also some magazines that I try to keep up on: The Economist, Salon (not nearly as much as I used to), The Nation.
In any case, there’s not nearly enough time to keep up on all of this, especially since my primary interests lie elsewhere. But I try not to depend on any single source of information but rather try to get some different viewpoints, dig on my own for anything that catches my eye. Hmm, okay, more than enought unneccesary typing for the day.