Among some of the sillier comments the politics threads have spawned (What could I possibly know because I’m “only” a comic book writer. And George W. Bush is only a failed businessman and Ronald Reagan was only an actor and Harry Truman was only some haberdasher, because one aspect of someone’s life completely dictates all other aspects, right?) there was a fairly reasonable question as to my news sources.
It’s eclectic. I read Newsday, the NY Daily News, Time, Newsweek, watch CNN, the Daily Show. But the one I’ve come to find the most informative is a magazine called “The Week.” Quite simply, it’s a weekly news magazine that beautifully sums up everything of major importance that’s gone on in the previous week, presenting viewpoints from all sides in brisk, even-handed fashion. I strongly recommend subscribing to it if your local newsstand doesn’t carry it.
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“The only reason some people don’t like hearing about politics from Famous people is basicly this: I’ve never heard of any person change their political views just becuase a celebrity gave their opinion.”
While I agree with the most of the ideas you expressed in your post, I don’t see how this explains the way some commentators (okay, to be honest I usually see them on the right, but you can contradict me on that) react so vehemently to famous people expressing a political opinion. Sure they may not agree with their opinion, but that’s the case with just about anybody. Usually when I seem someone react unfavourably to celebrities expressing political opinions it seems based on the idea that because these people are famous their opinions are inherently worthless or shouldn’t be expressed at all. Frankly I don’t see the difference between Martin Sheen saying the Iraq War is a bad idea and myself saying it.
But I don’t care what most celebrities say because I get all my political opinions from the Clash! 😉
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