A cool speech by author Michael Crichton (he wrote both Jurassic Park and ER). Visit the link. It has a video too, if you are interested. The whole article is good, but one quote reminded me of why I don't care much about news:
"there is nothing more sobering than a 30 year old newspaper. You can't figure out what the headlines mean. You don't know who the people are. Theodore Green, John Sparkman, George Reedy, Jack Watson, Kenneth Duberstein. You thumb through page after page of vanished concerns—issues that apparently were vitally important at the time, and now don't matter at all. It's amazing how many pressing concerns are literally of the moment. They won't matter in six months, and certainly not in six years. And if they won't matter then, are they really worth our attention now?"
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