Jun 16 2008
The Economist is almost the de facto way I keep up with current global events–with good reason. It is constantly publishing articles that other magazines/newspapers won’t go in depth about. Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan… The don’t publish celebrity filler like you see on CNN.com or some of the other news outlets.
That being said…The Economist is depressing! The avg daily wage in Goru Gutu of Eastern Ethiopia is 80 cents USD a day. Riots around the world, food shortages, human rights violations, slavery… It’s easy to see why the larger news outlets don’t carry much of this information. Who wants to hear it? It fills one with a sense of guilt.
Big Oil, global warming, waste waste waste
What am I doing?
Adding to it.