Differences Of Opinion

A favorite blog of mine recently posted a good video on thinking differently. It came at the same time I started to notice how many of much of the news Tweeted was redundant. We are lucky enough in America to have a variety of news sources, from conservative to liberal and even the not chartable. Regardless of your views, it’s important to get information from a variety of sources to help formulate a deeper understanding of situations. This is especially important when it comes to politics and world news.

I tend to stay away from international news, simply because my viewpoints have been crafted differently than most. With the Obama taking office in just a few days, the new President will have a very difficult task of rebuilding American economy while avoiding deep set isolationism. As American’s, on the best things we can do is be knowledgeable on both domestic and international news. When it comes to issues such as the fighting in Gaza, north Korea, Africa and South America, most of what occurs today spawns from thousands of years of historical content. It would take years for someone to study and fully understand simply one country’s behavior.

Since most of us don’t have years to dedicate to being an expert at a country or region, we do have the time to seek out multiple viewpoints. Sometimes it’s thinking about the situation a bit differently that can make all the nonsense, make sense.

Here’s some of the news sources I use:
BBC
Reuters
Al Jazeera
Kyodo News
CNN
Jane’s Defense Weekly
Foreign Affairs
Huffington Post

I have to give props to the Huffington Post. The reporter made a keen observation with their version of reporting on the emergency meeting that included Iran, Syria, and heads of a Islamic Jihad’s group. Both the Washington Post and CNN failed to include one of the most interesting pieces of information.