This Is Not a Test

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1.) How old are you?

2.) Where do you live (country)?

3.) Do you have children/other young people in your life you care about?

4.) What are your main news sources?

5.) Do you feel your news sources inform you reliably of the most important things going on in the world?

6.) What do you think is the most urgent problem facing us (i.e. the world at large) at the moment?

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[kimboo_york]

1. 42
2. USA (Florida)
3. No. Not close to family, never had my own kids.
4. Al Jazeera English and BBC.
5. Yes, much more so than any American outlets. Well, other than Jon Stewart, whom I trust far more than CNN or MSNBC.
6. Economic meltdown. There are many, many important issues (environment, poverty, big agro, overpopulation, disease) but we can't fix anything else if the economy is in shambles.

[kimboo_york]

It also occurs to me to note that I primarily follow news stories via twitter and facebook; that is, I either see a trending topic hashtag on twitter and look it up, or I catch a headline/opinion piece posted to FB by AJE or BBC. I rarely go to those news portals otherwise.

[space-oddity-75.livejournal.com]

1.) How old are you?
= 36 years old

2.) Where do you live (country)?
= Italy

3.) Do you have children/other young people in your life you care about?
= I have an 8-year-old daughter

4.) What are your main news sources?
= online newspapers and magazines, blogs and non-fiction books on recent issues (in different languages)

5.) Do you feel your news sources inform you reliably of the most important things going on in the world?
= I tend to read as many different sources as possible (in different languages) in order to balance out the possibile bias with different views of the same event, as no single source can be 100% reliable.

6.) What do you think is the most urgent problem facing us (i.e. the world at large) at the moment?
= the widespread European crisis and the big environmental issues (global warming, pollution, overexploitation of the natural resources, the increase in world population, etc). I couldn't pick one as more important than the others, as they are all somewhat linked to human behaviour and therefore equally important.