I was thinking about a thing: what if the raddiwala or someone else, some day, just for fun, would take one of these old newspapers and put it in your mailbox? Would you even notice that it was old news?
It may sound like a strange question, but I have noticed that people often run through the newspapers very fast, and since they (where I live) don't tell anything that can be considered fresh news, so much of what is written would be as good and useful a month later as on the day of publishing.
I agree...especially news about air strikes. Gaza, Ukraine, Myanmar, Operation Sindoor, Jags downing, Migs and Boeings crashing, pilgrims dying en route...!
Yes, the repeated news is a problem too, that's true. Most problems of the world are never fixed – just some more details added to them regularly.
It would be nice to, some day, get a newspaper in the mailbox telling that now all the world's problems have been fixed.
No more wars going on, no more disasters, no breaches of human rights, and no hunger, no lack of fresh water – and we have found a large amount of live animals that we thought we had made extinct. Oh, and the plastic that we spread everywhere, somehow disappeared overnight.
Maybe for that reason – to be able to hope for such a day, and be able to know about it when it would eventually come – we should keep one newspaper or newsletter subscription.
We still get our newspaper in the morning, and at the end of the month, the raddiwala comes and buys the old newspapers! 😁
I was thinking about a thing: what if the raddiwala or someone else, some day, just for fun, would take one of these old newspapers and put it in your mailbox? Would you even notice that it was old news?
It may sound like a strange question, but I have noticed that people often run through the newspapers very fast, and since they (where I live) don't tell anything that can be considered fresh news, so much of what is written would be as good and useful a month later as on the day of publishing.
I agree...especially news about air strikes. Gaza, Ukraine, Myanmar, Operation Sindoor, Jags downing, Migs and Boeings crashing, pilgrims dying en route...!
Climate...ouch!
Yes, the repeated news is a problem too, that's true. Most problems of the world are never fixed – just some more details added to them regularly.
It would be nice to, some day, get a newspaper in the mailbox telling that now all the world's problems have been fixed.
No more wars going on, no more disasters, no breaches of human rights, and no hunger, no lack of fresh water – and we have found a large amount of live animals that we thought we had made extinct. Oh, and the plastic that we spread everywhere, somehow disappeared overnight.
Maybe for that reason – to be able to hope for such a day, and be able to know about it when it would eventually come – we should keep one newspaper or newsletter subscription.