Real news
Aaron asks about the real content on the news, and why is it that newspapers fail to notice those relevant pieces of our daily experience that are shaping our history and understanding of the world. So disconnected he has been,
I?m back from Japan, I?m just not sure the plane landed on the right planet.
that everything seems to take an unknown hue.It is not only the lack of depth in newspapers, or the seemingly arbitrary selection of news that keeps us uninformed. It is also the constant limitation on content when driven by the market forces, an unknown but always consulted ?public? that makes the decision for lighter content. Or so our editors assume, helped in this by the ever-present statisticians.
Obviously, the blogger community fills a void - up to a point. But surely more is needed, some kind of gathering element, method to aggregate and maintain these frail links.
Meanwhile would do just as Aaron, reading from the links on my left.