I know it’s “elitist” of me, but I’m saddened by the common thread in these top stories from abqjournal.com. mjh
ABQjournal: Top Ten ABQjournal stories
Here are the most read stories on ABQjournal.com today. List is updated every 10 minutes. NOTE: These rankings are calculated based on clicks in web server logs. Either new content or old content can be the most read on the site any day.
Most Read Stories Today
1 MEN’S BASKETBALL Don’t Get Too Excited About the Lobos Yet
2 350 Attend Longford Auction
3 LOBO FOOTBALL Fum-Bowl! Postseason Berth Now In Jeopardy
4 Critics Say Rising Rail Runner Tab Slows Road Work
5 N.M. Surrounded by States With New, Tougher Immigration Laws
6 FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS Rams Top Hobbs for First Football Playoff Win
7 Snow-Making, Delayed Openings Figure in Forecast
8 FOOTBALL NMSU Hits Rock Bottom
9 BASKETBALL Lobo Women Visit California for 1st Road Test
10 NM Prep Scores
Most Read Stories this Week
1 Eclipse Is Sued By Supplier
2 Topless Bar a Bad Fit, Neighbors Say
3 Studio in the Works for State
4 Scorps Accused of Beating Man
5 NM Prep Scores
6 Young Are Flocking to Duke City
7 LOBO MEN’S BASKETBALL Defensive Effort Keys Early Run
8 Assets Unfrozen For Suspects
9 A Question of Advertising Some Lobo Fans Have Had Enough at Games
10 MEN’S BASKETBALL UNM Expecting to Land Signatures From a Cluster of Prep Stars Today
http://www.abqjournal.com/topten_stories.htm
The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, November
19, 2007 speaks [sort of] to this topic. According to WA, the poet Sharon Olds “tries not to watch any television or read any newspapers,
because she just doesn’t have time. To stay informed about the world, she looks at the front page of newspapers when she walks past
newsstands, and she asks her friends to brief her on world affairs.”
Olds goes on to observe, “It might be a bad thing, not to
know what’s going on in the world. I can’t say I really approve of it …[I just don’t like] learning about so many things that we
can’t do anything about.”