But I'm betting you didn't choose to read War and Peace, did you? Was that for a class or something like that?

Sadly no, it was my choice. It was horrible. So long and boring. At the end I had no idea what it was about, because it was so long and boring. Like one of those movies where at the end you have no idea what you just watched and can't say anything really about it, because it's like it was just a long drone.

I think that we -- meaning all people -- need to acknowledge that our news is skewed by perception and bias and we need to learn to watch the news with that in mind. Critical thinking is something that should be taught at every level of education because, you know what? I don't think it is right now and we're merely putting out sheep for the machine to keep going.

Yeah...you're right.

One thing I've been hoping for a while with the internet is that we'll get a lot more choice in who we watch and what we get for the news. It's a little better than it was. Now I can watch news from multiple sources one after the other and skip the stories I don't want to hear about, but it's still a bit hard, because they don't want people to be able to watch every story from the day instantly on YouTube or wherever, because the advertising isn't there fully yet, so they don't get as much.