Frank Haywood

I know this is going to sound a little shocking to some, but for several years now I haven't read a newspaper or watched the news.  My reason for that is I just find it too damn depressing, and it distracts me from living my life.  So I cut it out.

If the news is really important, then I've always figured that someone would tell me or as happens more often nowadays, they ask my opinion.

When I had a job, that stance served me well as the office would be chattering about whatever the newsworthy item was about, and I'd ask a couple of questions, get some stares and a few dropped jaws because I didn't know anything about it, and that would be it.  I was updated.

Watching people walk away shaking their heads made me smile.

And before you say "yes but you could never hold an informed opinion about anything", I say so what?  The news as it is reported is made up.  It's someone else's opinion of a second or third hand recollection of something that might or might not have happened the way they think it did.

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