Reading the 'New York Times'

Just as with my starting of writing a blog at the beginning of this course, following blogs (or online news) is also new to me. I have never really followed any one blog or kept up to date with stories posted on news sites for an extended period of time, though I have read a few posts on various blogs here and there while browsing around on the internet. The hardest part of this has been, embarrassingly so, the actual daily reading of the Times, simply because I am not yet used to checking it every day and have a tendency to forget things. (My schedule is rather odd most of the time, so remembering to check up on the blogs and the New York Times every day has been an unexpected challenge for me, but I guess that’s one of the advantages of Post-It note reminders...)

The articles that catch my attention most aren’t really the political or economic ones, but the articles on topics that I’m more interested in or those with fascinating titles. A few examples of those that I’ve read are: ‘Women: Intrinsically evil or tragically misunderstood?’, ‘Experts Puzzle Over How Flight Overshot Airport’, and ‘For Some Parents, Shouting Is the New Spanking’. I noticed these while looking in sections I’m interested in. In the art section, I saw the article ‘Women…’ about a controversial new film that was about to be released. I noticed the article about the overshot flight because, with a few family members being pilots, my family has always been into airplanes and such. Last year, in my psychology class, we spent a lot of time covering developmental psychology and parenting, so that’s why the last article that I mentioned caught my attention. By only looking at the articles that interested me I probably missed the important events going on in today’s society.

Reading the New York Times has helped me stay somewhat more informed on what’s going on in the world. Especially since, like I admitted in a previous blog, I don’t really watch or read the news ever, except for checking the New York Times recently. It has influenced how I think about the news a little bit by providing me with insight to current events. As I continue to read articles on the Times website, I will be more updated on world news than I have been in the past.