used to have satellite television in my home, but I realized that it was only being used as a time-waster for my children and the only thing I watched religiously was Democracy Now! Now, I read online news from Democracy Now instead of watch.

Online news from the Middle East is provided by Mosaic on my MyYahoo page. The viewpoint from this source of online news is very different than the online news from mainstream American media.

Beyond my need for important world online news and liberal viewpoints, I use online news as a source of entertainment. I subscribe to Reuters’ Oddly Enough online news.

I also subscribe to Strange News online news from the Associated Press and Odd News from the Canadian Press. The online news that I get from these sources is only for amusement.

Some of the most entertaining online news is from the AFP and is called Offbeat News. I can usually find some amusement from at least one of the online news articles published in their content.

I’m interested in a subscription for online news on my MyYahoo page that lists the most viewed online news stories. I rarely read these articles, I just read the headlines.

The same procedure goes for the subscription to the most emailed online news stories that I have on my MyYahoo page. I just read the headlines to get a feel for what Americans are thinking about. I usually can’t bring myself to read any of the online news stories in this section.

The reason I find it hard to read the online news stories that most Americans are reading is because I have just read online news that is important. I have determined that the online news that Americans are interested in is stupid.

USA Today has online news that is just as insipid as their printed news. It is offensive to me that news for an entire nation can be boiled down to some abomination of real news. The stories are condescending and short, just like American attention spans.


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