One of the side effects of my car's great stereo system is that I no longer listen to NPR on my way to and from work because I am delightedly blasting long-forgotten CDs at high volumes. That used to be my primary way to get news. Which is pathetic, because I don't live very far from work, so my current event awareness was always limited to seven-to-ten minutes of news twice a day. Now I don't even have that. My sense of what is going on in the world is built from vague impressions of the headlines of the local paper and the Wall Street Journal that we have at the firm, and the various rants of political bloggers spouting off from time to time. Very occasionally I'll sit down with the paper and a cup of tea but it's rare.
(My plan is that, like gardening, an interest in politics and current events will come upon me in middle age. And when I get to retirement age, that's when I'll start reading history and philosophy.)
You just need a nice long commute, plenty of time for the news and then enough rock and roll to forget it.
Posted by: win | March 23, 2004 at 02:59 PM