While doing school-y things from 830 AM to 11 PM every day, it's hard to get my regular doses of NPR in.
This is a good and bad thing. It's good because I don't have to hear about the bullshisse stories, like Jesse Jackson made crude comments about Obama. Or Hilary, Caroline and Barack are having secret meetings. However, I also don't hear about things like nuclear brinkmanship in Iran and how it makes oil jump in price, yet again. Obviously I know of these stories, but that's because they were on my AP news feed on my email account. But who knows what Morning Edition is covering that would be of interest to me that doesn't show up on these news feeds of mine?
Overall, I'd say I don't like missing out on this information. Not at this time at least. I am a person engaged in the world and I prefer knowing about all the nuances, rather than tuning out. Maybe someday if I decide to become one of the off-the-grid people, I'll be happy to tune out. But for now, I feel intellectually naked without my All Things Considered.
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