Thursday, Oct 20

The NYT usually has a few light-hearted (or at least not super negative) stories in it every day, maybe to balance out the amount of negative news stories and events going on in the world around us. Today, however, I struggled to find something optimistic. There was a story about exotic animals being killed after they were released onto an Ohio reserve, which I didn't read because anything having to do with hurting animals really bothers me - I just don't have the stomach for issues with animals. There were a bunch of articles in the National section about the upcoming election, which I can't believe is in about a year! It seems like only yesterday I was a senior in high school, anxious for the presidential (and even local) election so that I could vote for the very first time. Many of the articles featured stories about candidates and the "bad blood" between certain ones, among other things. I'm starting to realize how much work really goes into putting a newspaper together because the massive number of stories written on such vast topic areas is unbelievable to me, and the fact that they produce this paper every single day is remarkable. I think I have taken for granted the fact that newspapers do all of this hard work to provide us, the readers, with information they've deemed necessary to give us. Just something to think about on this rainy day!