Archive for January 23rd, 2009

Several years ago (pre-Iraq war), I discovered Salon.com and started reading everything they had ever printed. Most significantly, I started reading about current events, something I hadn’t done previously. After about two years, though, I couldn’t read current events stories anymore. It was too depressing. It made me too angry. I couldn’t read another story about Bush’s policies or about how he couldn’t even read the teleprompter or use real English words in sentences. About all I could do was watch The Daily Show.

But I know some of you soldiered on. You kept reading the articles – from Salon and the NYT and lots of other media sources. So, now that Obama has already begun unraveling some of Bush’s heinous webs, I’m wondering how it feels to be reading the news these days. I find that I look forward to the news articles and even caught myself watching the news on ABC last night.

Is it terrible of me that when things were really bad, I couldn’t stomach it, but now that the news is reporting the actions of a president I agree with, I’m interested and connected to current events again?