sable_twilight ([info]sable_twilight) wrote,
@ 2008-01-23 14:39:00
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Need tips for reading the newspaper
So our media editing professor strongly suggest reading the local newspapers and is going to include questions about current events in his weekly quizzes.

I'm not really a newspaper person. I never have been. Most of it is about subjects I could really care less about. I guess being around several dozen (if not hundreds of) life times, reports of abusive caregivers, murder, theft, scandal, sports teams, and so forth just become... trite and repetitive.

But I have to trudge through it.

So I tried looking at the online paper.
Oh gods. If my interest level were not already strained, having to sift through the montage of headlines and news snips that are just piled on the page does not help matters. How do people read the newspaper? It just becomes and overwhelming jumble to me. I suppose I might have to get dead tree editions, but subscriptions are expensive.

So what tips to people have with reading newspapers? How do you do it? Heck, I have a tough enough time dealing with LJ some days, and it come in a nice linear fashion.

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[info]suicideluvkitty
2008-01-23 09:44 pm UTC (link)
just read the headlines. and if interested maybe a paragraph or two of the actual story. everything else is just filler info that you can skip.

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[info]nytemuse
2008-01-23 11:13 pm UTC (link)
Do any of the news websites offer an RSS feed that you can plug into a friendlier reader interface, like LJ or Google Reader?

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[info]rainbowravenx
2008-01-23 11:15 pm UTC (link)
Good luck! I used to read the paper, but would only read the headlines that interested me, and the Sports, Business and Personals went directly into the Recycling bin. And I agree Online news papers are a hedache. And I agree with you on the LJ thing. Good luck!

Blessings & hugs
~Bella

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[info]bifemmefatale
2008-01-23 11:15 pm UTC (link)
Find your local NPR station and listen to it as much as possible. You'll be informed on current events before you know it.

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[info]paksen
2008-01-23 11:27 pm UTC (link)
Yes KCFR (1340AM) is public radio news 24 hrs a day here in Denver. I pull down a 5 minute podcast from them every morning. It's the highlights and enough for me to have a bit of a sense of what's going on in the world. CNN and a couple other news websites provide summary podcasts as well.

One other thing there's a public radio show called Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. It's a news quiz show and a lot of fun to listen to. It is also available as a podcast.

Sable, ping me if you need help with podcasts.

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[info]sable_twilight
2008-01-24 12:16 am UTC (link)
I don't have problems with podcasts. It's just that I still use a CD player. Do you know of any really inexpensive mp3 players that would work with the NPR podcasts?

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[info]paksen
2008-01-24 01:04 am UTC (link)
I got a cheap mp3 player from woot, for less than $40. 2GB SanDisk. The key though is that I use iTunesSync with iTunes to load up my podcasts each morning. iTunesSync let's you sync your non-ipod mp3 player with iTunes (as long as the files are mp3).

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