Week 6 Reading Blog

Monday
Today’s New York Times I think lacked a bit of the stories that I wanted to read. There was a fairly interesting one about how changing Barack Obama’s campaign bandwagon into things like new education policies and medicare and such. It really was fairly interesting, but nothing too earth-shattering. There was a particularly deadly international section today, including an avalanche that killed some people. Lovely. Where’s the fun stuff?
Tuesday
I didn’t mind today’s paper, a little less on the budget stuff, which was a nice change of pace. There was a particularly interesting article I saw, one that had a new portrait of William Shakespeare. The pictures of him before were, to say the least, unflattering in their view of the author. However, this one, one that is said to be of Shakepeare’s time and one that just came out, offers one that makes him look a bit better. It just looks a lot better and it was interesting to read about.
Wednesday
For once, the front page of the paper didn’t have something about Obama’s plan for the stimulus package! How awesome it is. However, I did find an interesting article saying some banks want to give back their money, feeling bad they took it. Thank you very very much banks. There are a lot of other people who may need it a little more than you. I do appreciate that they have a conscious and they feel it necessary to only take what they think is fair. Very respectable.
Thursday
There was a very interesting article today in the NY Times, about how the newspaper business is beginning to legitimately fail in some cities, leading for them to be pared down to a one paper town or sometimes a no paper town. It really is kind of weird to be seeing this. You always, always think of big city newspapers and how much they mean to the rest of the country and now they are beginning to fall. It’d be weird not to get the Boston Globe on a Sunday at my house in Nashua, and I don’t really want to see it happen.