Confessions of a news junkie

If your anything like me your news stand on your iPad is chalk full of magazine subscriptions and your front door littered with newspapers every morning. You probably percolate a pot of black coffee on the stove or go and get a tall blonde roast from Starbucks and sit down and start processing all the new information you have just been handed. You might even be inclined to write a tweet or take an Instagram photo or two.

Every morning I wake up and make myself either a pot of coffee or a pot of tea it depends on my mood. I take out my iPad and start from top to bottom flipping through every News app from CNN to the Guardian to The BBC. It usually takes me a little over an hour to go through my news apps alone not to mention all the related content linked within over half of the articles. Don't even get me started on days when a new issue of Time or News Week comes out.

Sometimes though when I'm especially desperate to read a newspaper I can be found driving around to just about every local place that has free papers bumming a copy of everything I can find. Most of the time I don't even order anything I just sit down and read the paper or even worse just grab one and go. I even have a list of places and what papers they carry like for instance a popular Italian sandwich shop down the street carries a small time paper called "The Coffee Times".

Even when I'm at work I'm scrolling my Twitter feed searching for new articles posted by the New York Times magazine or CNN. It's crazy how much I absorb myself in popular culture and the amount of news I read. I feel as though I don't have anyone that I can sit down with a nice cup of tea and talk current events.

I confess that a lot of my friends are getting really tired of me saying "hey, wanna hear something interesting?" or "You should check out this article I just read" or even worse "I wanted to get your opinion on (long story)." I've always made the joke that I would make a good news anchor because I could ramble on for hours about crap no one seems to care about and get paid for it.

In the end when it comes to hard news I feel like every story no matter how personal has a price. These days It seems like everything is for sale in America and everyone wants to get a slice of the delicious pie called capitalism. I feel like I'm just another player in the game hungry to read it all and that's exactly what I do.

What's your opinion towards news and the media?

xoxo Rebecca