New York Changing

I like to consider myself an avid follower of the news. However, before this class I really only looked to CNN and my local sfgate for news. When reading the description for this class I added the NY Times to my safari bookmark bar and now it have become one of the sites on my daily rotation. I really enjoy reading the New York Times because it gives me a different perspective on the same news stories. I also enjoy the way that they have been covering the 2012 primaries. I think that they do an excellent job both covering and analyzing the elections.

Because I look at CNN and NYT multiple times a day, I feel that I have seen a lot of the recent stories. Most recently, the ruling in the circuit 9 court in California (best state ever) ruled that prop 8 is unconstitutional. This is very interesting and it will certainly be interesting to see where the case ends up, (supreme court?). Some of the stories that have been really interesting to follow were/are the elections, the Italian cruise ship disaster, stock market trends and developments in Iran among others.

I think that the stories that I have been following the most have been stories on the economy and the stock market. Personally, I have invested money in the stock market and the whole financial sector and economic struggles are really interesting to me. I have also been following the primaries very closely because I am interested in who will be my man Obama’s opponent later this year.

Recently I feel that I have missed out on the crisis in Syria. I don’t know why this is but I feel like I don’t know as much about that situation then I do others. Maybe it is because I don’t want to read articles about dying children. It is something that I should become more informed on. To be honest I don’t really think that read the NYT had really changed my interactions that much. I feel that I already did a lot of news reading, and adding the NYT certainly broadened my perspective but I don’t really think that it impacted the way I read, write and work.