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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
For those of you with no tv at all I have a question. What do you do for the big events? During 9/11 did you hang at other peoples house or do you not care about any news at all?
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Typically, the big events will seek you out. I was on an internet forum like this one when someone posted that a plane had hit the WTC. I switched to YahooNews, and within minutes I'd gotten calls from friends. I wouldn't be like the folks in the old SNL skit about Kennedy being shot...
Mostly, I prefer the papers anyway. When you watch a big news event live, you get almost nothing but speculation anyway ("Could this have been pilot error, Bob?" "I don't know, Jane. Let's go to our remote reporter Rob, who knows little more than we do but we can use the tragedy as a backdrop! Rob?" "Thanks, Bob. Authorities still aren't saying much...").
The papers are more comprehensive, as well. Typically, I read the entire paper except for the sports section, and I always seem way ahead of the people that just saw the 10 top stories on the news.