Tim Knowles
2 min readAug 9, 2020

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Your story seems out of touch but it is probably me who is out of touch. Newspapers and the Press are going the way of the Dodo bird if they are not extinct yet. Press, like the printing press and newspapers, don't read them.

TV news, don't watch it. Don't watch TV but to maybe stream some shows or a movie on rare occasions.

I read Google news, Medium, Bloomberg Market everyday. Sometimes I listen to NPR news on the radio but now that I don't drive to work that happens less. I listen to BBC Global News Pod cast most days. Sometimes I read Al Jazeera, UPI or Forbes on the web and I get daily e-mail summaries from NY Times.

I prefer to read the news as opposed to video. Newspapers would be fine except they are bulky and wasteful, I read on my phone, tablet or computer. Facebook, if I see something news like on Facebook, I ignore it. YouTube, I sometimes search for stuff there if I need like a how to video.

I prefer Google news because the don't create content they just curate diverse sources. You often can get four or more perspectives on a single story, left, right, center, and totally off the wall or foreign.

What I don't like about TV or radio is you only get their version and if you want more you end up going to a computer to dig out more details so why not just start on the computer anyway.

You did not mention Twitter. I don't use it or follow it at all but it seems the Media just love it and I see a lot of Tweets posted in News Stories. More and more people are making news by posting stupidity on Twitter rarely do I see wisdom from Twitter posted elsewhere. I expect that wisdom is shared there from time to time but it is drowned out by the noise.

TEK

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Tim Knowles
Tim Knowles

Written by Tim Knowles

Worked in our nations space programs for more than 40 years

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