Thursday; September 25
Several things have changed in my lifetime, but one of the ones that may have had the biggest impact is the number of news outlets. When I was younger you may have had a couple of TV channels, a few radio stations and maybe a local or regional newspaper. You may have subscribed to a magazine, but by the time they came in the mail, they were probably filled with old news and dated editorials. Now we are moments away from local, national and international news. We can find out the most intimate details of a situation in a matter of minutes. Additionally, we can compare one version of a story with another and determine – in our own mind – the truth (and often the truth is somewhere in the middle). Now, we might think that this mass presence of news is a good thing – and it can be – however, the modern problem is that we tend to news-shop. Rather than digging deeper to find the truth, we are apt to find a media outlet that fits our chosen perspectiv...