1. Do you think that newspapers are accusatory; that their general motif, way, is that of ‘got’chya’? Read your favourite newspaper(s) today and apply this thought while you’re doing so. How much of what  you read reflects: we found the worst aspect of this  person’s life, or a situation, highlited it, and now are presenting it to you, to read, for entertainment…so you can be tantalized and excited by how ‘bad’ others are, and therefore how ‘great’ you must be?

2. Isn’t the news supposed to let us know about the very important things going on, asking us to digest the facts, and then determine for ourselves how best to respond, how to incorporate that news into our lives? Isn’t it supposed to make our  world better? Ask yourself: when did a newspaper article last made you pick up a phone, or write a letter and try to help a situation. Perhaps once, twice or three times? But is that enough for all the serious trashing that we need every day, in every newspaper? What is the ultimate affect newspaper reading has on our psychi? Does  it motivate and encourage us to create a  better self and world? Or does it influence us in such a way that  we become more discouraged and jaded?

3. How would you design, write, layout a newspaper? What would it look like? What would its voice sound like?

October 10, 2009
Categories: Simple Ideas . Tags: news, newspapers . Author: avrum

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