I should get the paper at 2:35 PM

I have a confession to make. I don't watch the news. I have no idea what's going on in the world around me. And to be completely honest, I'm fine with that. Now, before everyone (all two of you) goes crazy on me, I realize that if everyone had this attitude, we'd all be suffering under oppressive fascist regimes and never even know it. I suppose that's a bad thing, so I've decided to think about trying to change my attitude. The problem is this: I hate television news.

Seriously, have you ever seen these guys? Local newscasters were horrible in Provo, UT (where I went to college), and the glimpses I've seen of the local news here in Kokomo, IN (Indianapolis feed) suggest that their guys aren't much better. I haven't had decent local news since I lived in Delaware (Philly feed). And national news is so sickeningly pretentious it makes me want to vomit. Do these guys really think they're that intelligent because they sit behind a desk and read the stories of what's going on from a teleprompter? Obviously you want a seemingly intelligent person informing you of current events, but they could at least pretend they're not that much better than everybody else.

I haven't seen an entire newscast since September 12, 2001. That's the truth. By that day of course, everyone realized what had happened the day before. For some reason, however, we needed to be reminded over and over again. So I boycotted the news. By this time I was already so sick of people like Matt Lauer and Katie Couric that I could have actually turned off the TV when they came on, so I didn't need much to push me over the edge.

Speaking of those two, let me talk about that for a minute. The news media is supposed to be unbiased, right? I guess Today is considered part of the news media, so I would expect them to at least not be so blatant in their bias towards certain guests. Of course, I haven't seen the show in three years, so I have no specific examples. I only remember generally that these two would repeatedly rip into people who clashed with their own obvious personal political views, while kissing the collective rump of celebrities and those they considered to be pioneers or heroes.

Anyway, my point in all this is that I should get the newspaper. That way I wouldn't have to put up with reporters or interviewers or any of that garbage. Of course, all media is going to be biased as long as human beings are covering the news. We can't help but stick our views into whatever subject it is that we discuss. It's just not as obvious when one reads it rather than seeing facial expressions and tones of voice. The problem with this whole idea is that I would have to buy a paper. Seeing as how I'm cheap and I don't have much interest in what's going on anyway (for the most part), I'm having a hard time convincing myself that I should cough up the extra few bucks. Maybe I'll just stay like I am. If one day everyone starts to think like me, then maybe I'll pick up a paper.