I was just catching up with a friend of mine here in Baltimore today and we were talking about disconnecting yourself from the corporate news machine in all its various forms: newspapers, television, internet, radio - and just getting your news directly from your friends and people you run into in your daily routine. Typically if something really tremendous is going on, people will be talking about it, and you can get the basics from them within a much more meaningful context: a direct human-to-human relationship.
That’s not to say you’re not going to get filtered and biased information. Because you will. You always will. That’s what people are good at. That’s why you’d want to get your news from your neighbors: because you know them, what they believe, what they stand for, what drives them crazy, and where your common interests merge.
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2 Comments
Hi Tim,
Good to see you back on the blogging horse.
I definately find that anything important always filters through to me. You just have to be lucky to have good neighbours who are interested in real things, not only whats happening on Australian Idol and the football.
Yeah, you have to cultivate those kinds of relationships though…