Ever since I subscribed to the BBC RSS feed, I've become a bonifide news junkie. I check the BBC website at least twice a day and now I even tune in to BBC radio whenever I have a chance.
Yesterday's news builds on today's news builds on tomorrow's news building on the day after tomorrow's news and so on and so forth. All the pieces of information I've absorbed begin connecting in my mind, isolated events fit and re-fit like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
I've begun forming opinions about issues that I wouldn't have had the faintest awareness of before, and relating them to my daily life and my personal values.
At one point last month, I wondered if reading the news was all just useless mental clutter adding to a daily life already filled with plenty of mental clutter.
I don't believe it is.
