Day 28 ~ News

When I got my own apartment, almost twenty years ago, I paid a cable subscription for two years. I found watching TV a waste of time, which I wanted no part of, so it turned out to be a waste of money instead. The only thing I ever watched back then was news, so I started reading them online from then on, a habit that has carried on through the years. I love being informed of what happens in the world, and despite having left my country that many years ago, it is through its papers that I stay informed. There is always some story I follow closely. In July it was the rescue of the Thai boys trapped in a cave after the water level raised. In August, the attacks that Uber drivers suffered in Spain at the hands of disgruntled taxi drives, seeing their well-established corporate monopoly vanish. In September, the Kavennaugh's nomination to the supreme court and his rise to power despite allegations of rape when he was a high school student. And now the barbaric murder of a Saudi citizen by government officials in his own country's consulate in Istanbul.