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What is "the news?"
The future of our republic and our collective sanity depends on getting this question answered. The purpose of this Website is to promote sanity after the age of 60. Here's a fresh news recommendation — try a different point of view. If you only look at "traditional" American news sources you might go crazy. Or should I say, crazier? Try The BBC; the Brits have a different, though familiar, point of view on world news and affairs, and though government owned, BBC has a long tradition of independence. And try GlobalPost.com, a fairly new Web news organization that's doing genuine journalism (as opposed to unsavory, hype-processed and/or self-conscious, dysfunctional, American style, commercial news-spiel. Check these two out and tell me what you think.

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We grew up on radio — one golden age of it or another, and a new multimedia radio age is under way, thanks to the disruptive effects of the Internet. Just look at what's out there for you if you want to listen to "radio" from the Web. CNet reviews Logitech's Squeezebox, and

Wired.com touts the Ira, which, it says, is aimed at "stupid old people." Forgive the callow idjits who produce these techie mags, they know not what they do. But, wake up, old-fashioned broadcast radio stations. These are "radios" that can't pick up your signal except through a telephone line. Wake up. You've still got a chance to get into the new game.

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I don't want to get all hung up on the whole American demographics thing, but there it is. Here's an article you should read, about More, a magazine for women over 40. It confirms again that the ad business and their clients, America's marketers, still think nobody exists, economically or culturally, after 50. This in the midst of the historic acceleration of the world's population. More's audience is growing, and these women, average age 51, are richer than average. Yet the ad biz pressure on the magazine is to get a younger audience.

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