Is it just me?
May. 28th, 2004 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carynbSo, we're entering political/election frenzy here in Canada.
Being a reasonably concerned citizen, in a bit of a quandary about which way to vote this time 'round, I decided I should start trying to follow the evening news to see what the various political leaders are saying/doing. I'm never home in time to catch all of the 6:00 news, so I've been trying to watch the 11:00.
Note the use of the word "trying", there. It doesn't matter which channel I'm watching, by 11:10 I'm shaking myself awake on the couch, and heading to bed. So, if the coverage isn't in the first 5 minutes, I'm missing it.
So, the Global coverage is flat out - they do the "breaking news in Toronto" stuff first, so I'm not awake long enough to get to the politics. The CBC seems the one with the most "outside Toronto" coverage, which is what I want.
Is the delivery just dull? If I sat down at my computer at that point to catch up on LJ, or read some comics, or even play solitaire, I could easily be up for another hour or two. I'm starting to think that TV-watching is just too passive for me after 10. I'm interested in what's going on, and there's information in there that I want. Maybe I'm more a child of the MTV generation than I thought...
I guess I'll be getting my election coverage from the weekend paper.
Being a reasonably concerned citizen, in a bit of a quandary about which way to vote this time 'round, I decided I should start trying to follow the evening news to see what the various political leaders are saying/doing. I'm never home in time to catch all of the 6:00 news, so I've been trying to watch the 11:00.
Note the use of the word "trying", there. It doesn't matter which channel I'm watching, by 11:10 I'm shaking myself awake on the couch, and heading to bed. So, if the coverage isn't in the first 5 minutes, I'm missing it.
So, the Global coverage is flat out - they do the "breaking news in Toronto" stuff first, so I'm not awake long enough to get to the politics. The CBC seems the one with the most "outside Toronto" coverage, which is what I want.
Is the delivery just dull? If I sat down at my computer at that point to catch up on LJ, or read some comics, or even play solitaire, I could easily be up for another hour or two. I'm starting to think that TV-watching is just too passive for me after 10. I'm interested in what's going on, and there's information in there that I want. Maybe I'm more a child of the MTV generation than I thought...
I guess I'll be getting my election coverage from the weekend paper.
