Technology

So, I have figured out that there are "About" 17 million ways to contact someone on the internet. There are "About" 15 trillion ways to leave your mark on the world through the internet. There are "About" 28 ga-gillion places trying to get you to buy their special breed of information on the internet.

Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, etc. I could go on and on... but most of you already know more than I do about this stuff. I am working my way through this collage of information. All I tried to do was Google "State of the Union Address" because I was going to do this week's blog assignment on something relevant to society and some of my friends on Facebook were talking about the Violence Against Women's Act. I wanted more information. So I thought, "Hummm, I wonder what Obama had to say about it last night." I got 'About 1,580,000,000 results'. How does one shift through 1.5 billion pieces of information about one thing that happened yesterday?????

It seems crazy in this information age that one, pretty smart if I do say so, person such as myself could find one unbiased piece of news surrounding the VAWA during the President's speech last night. First off, I should clarify that I really don't expect to find an unbiased piece of news ANYWHERE on the internet, or TV for that matter. But, really, should I have to read a word-for-word recount of the speech to make sure I am the only biased opinion in the translation? That seems ludicrous. More than once, I would like to hear from someone that reports the news the way it happens. Not the way it would have happened if looking through a pair of rose colored glasses on a sunny day in Detroit. I want to know how it looked actually. Did the President actually say that it was good that the Senate passed the VAWA re-authorization? Did he talk of it at all? Did he acknowledge the good work that the bill does for all violence victims around the country? Did he rebound the efforts that Republicans tried to put forth, in the election crisis of 2012, that rape is only rape if it is legitimate? Does he even care?

I guess I didn't care enough to watch it... or have it stream on my computer...or have it downloaded onto my phone.... or input into my head by satellite.