My name is Lauren, and I'm a newsaholic

Hi Lauren.

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I have a problem. I compulsively check news websites a grossly high number of times per day. I may be a journalism student and it may be good that I'm someone who is bothering to keep up at all, but really, it's ridiculous.

I estimate I checked CNN about 15 times today. Once while I was getting ready this morning, about 11 times at work, twice when I got home from work, and once again just now.

I've checked CityNews slightly fewer times, maybe 10 times, as it doesn't have as much global coverage and it's updated less often.

The fact that I know it is updated less often is very telling.

I also check CBC, but only about once or twiceper week for the news pictures.

Then I also read The Star in the morning while I'm spooning down a yogurt, then I read The Sun once I'm at work.

Not to mention I check Feministing a few times per day, which keeps me updated on news related to women's rights or lack there of. News that CNN didn't touch.

And its completely autonomous. My fingers twitch on the keyboard, hit C-N-DOWN to where CNN is saved in the internet history. I don't even think when I do it.

But the trouble is, I still feel like I'm missing something.

When CNN litters their front page in fluff pieces about kittens and what is or is not in Angelina Jolie's uterus, what got bumped back?

If Feministing has more in depth coverage of global women's rights updates, and they are a blog without access to a press wire services, what else is being missed?

I don't lose sleep over it all, but maybe someone somewhere should be.

Then it's a question of why do I need to know these things? What good does it do? I can be aware, I can be opinionated, I can blog, but I don't know what that amounts to.

I'm just an addict.

At least it's not heroin, right?

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PS-new goal: daily random, short blogging. Good luck to me.