I realized this morning that I have fallen very far behind in my weekly blog posts (as I'm sure my class grade will show) so I logged on to Yahoo! news to see what I could dig up to blog about. Well, I'm afraid I don't have any one topic just yet, but rather a whole list of them. The "Featured Stories" on the Yahoo! homepage were the following: "New 'Dancing' Cast Revealed," "Tiger Woods and Wife Welcome New Baby," "Best and Worst Dressed at the Grammy Awards" and "NBA Team Scores 7 Points in 1.4 Seconds."
I'll admit, I'm just as much of a sucker for what we dubbed "soft news" and the next person, but even I am starting to think this is a little overboard. The different news tabs read "Featured," "Entertainment," "Sports" and "Video." I looked through each one of those tabs, and not one of them had anything other than "soft news" stories listed. What is the point of having those different tabs if they all list the same stories? "Featured" is pretty much the same thing as "Entertainment" and "Sports" and even "Video" looked like the YouTube homepage. But then, maybe that's what I get for relying on site called Yahoo! for my "hard news" (I don't mean to knock Yahoo! as a whole, it's just a little disappointing). It makes me wonder, are we really so detached from the major issues going on around us that all we care to read about is the latest American Idol scandal?
I have nothing against soft news (though I prefer not to read it), but I thought the exact same thing as you did when I went to Yahoo today for news.
ReplyDeleteI set up an RSS feed for hard news from different news papers to show up on my Google homepage, but those haven't updated for at least a week.
Maybe everyone's getting burnt out?