An interesting news bulletin on the French RTL radio station at 7.30 this morning. Not a word about the emerging "plan" to save the eurozone. Not a word about Syria. Not a word about Libya. Obviously one accepts that a domestic radio station will concentrate on home news, but even so... I'm bound to say that the BBC Radio 4 news half an hour later at 8 am was far more balanced.
Newspapers: I notice a change in my reading habits. For many years I turned first to the sports pages, sublimely uninterested in any other news. When I started subscribing to the International Herald Tribune about ten years, after my years in the wilderness when I never read anything, I still moved to the sports pages pretty quickly but, possibly because there was too much American Football, baseball and basket ball to my taste, I began to explore other sections of the newspaper. I looked in particular at the arts and travel pages, but I never in any circumstances visited the business section. Indeed I once wrote to the IHT complaining about what I considered the inordinate amount of space devoted to finance in their paper. All those stocks and shares...
Nowadays, the financial section is the first item I turn to, or rather access on my iPad. This is where the action is; this is the most exciting part of the news. Sign of the times!
Newspapers: I notice a change in my reading habits. For many years I turned first to the sports pages, sublimely uninterested in any other news. When I started subscribing to the International Herald Tribune about ten years, after my years in the wilderness when I never read anything, I still moved to the sports pages pretty quickly but, possibly because there was too much American Football, baseball and basket ball to my taste, I began to explore other sections of the newspaper. I looked in particular at the arts and travel pages, but I never in any circumstances visited the business section. Indeed I once wrote to the IHT complaining about what I considered the inordinate amount of space devoted to finance in their paper. All those stocks and shares...
Nowadays, the financial section is the first item I turn to, or rather access on my iPad. This is where the action is; this is the most exciting part of the news. Sign of the times!
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