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It's the end of another working week, and that means it's time for a new open thread prompt. I was inspired this time by a series of 'Friday 5' questions that I saw several Dreamwidth friends answering last week — feel free to answer all five questions, or just use the spirit of all five in a more general way:
Talk about your engagement with news media, past and present.
( Original five questions, plus my answers )
Honestly, looking at everything I've written behind the cut, I think my relationship with the news was a lot healthier back when I engaged with everything in print, in a circumscribed manner, even though a) I'm the daughter of two journalists, and lived in a house in which political news reporting was literally spread out across the breakfast table every morning and b) I came of age during the 'global war on terror' era (9/11 happened when I was 16) and my entire early adulthood felt like one long raging fury about American foreign policy and its repercussions and reverberations in Australian politics.
Talk about your engagement with news media, past and present.
( Original five questions, plus my answers )
Honestly, looking at everything I've written behind the cut, I think my relationship with the news was a lot healthier back when I engaged with everything in print, in a circumscribed manner, even though a) I'm the daughter of two journalists, and lived in a house in which political news reporting was literally spread out across the breakfast table every morning and b) I came of age during the 'global war on terror' era (9/11 happened when I was 16) and my entire early adulthood felt like one long raging fury about American foreign policy and its repercussions and reverberations in Australian politics.