{"id":1754,"date":"2017-02-07T08:01:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T23:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:46:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:46:27","slug":"ink-stained-wretches-in-the-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/ink-stained-wretches-in-the-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"Ink Stained Wretches in the 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"

The night Castro died I was at my daughter’s house for the weekend. With three granddaughters from age 3 to 7 and 5000 square feet if gets loud and\u00a0 fun when the grandparents come for the weekend.<\/p>\n

After the kids are watching Frozen for the (insert improbable large number\u00a0 here) time, the adults usually do what happens in a quiet moment these days and check their phones.<\/p>\n

My daughter informs me that Castro has died. I look for a web site that has the story and find none. I ask her to check her sources and she tells me it is all over Twitter. None of my three newsfeeds has it, neither does CNN, Fox, ABC, or AP.<\/p>\n

She shows me her twitter feed. I had flirted with Twitter in the early days and even briefly used it for business marketing,\u00a0 It has become a complete mess, but right now it cannot be touched for breaking news.<\/p>\n

\"Breaking-News\"<\/p>\n

It took over 45 minutes for the Castro story on the websites and search engines to catch up to twitter .<\/p>\n

Coincident to this, my news feed app went dark and instead of using another one, I reactivated my Twitter account, followed a bunch of news sites and a few key people and now it is a three or four times a day review for five minutes. My web viewing is now almost all opinion pieces.<\/p>\n

So now for the point of the story.<\/p>\n

How do you people get your news? Not commentary and opinion, but the ‘Breaking News” stuff?<\/p>\n