Media Monitoring

I read newspapers for a living.

Ok, fine - I do more than that... but I do read a hell of a lot of articles every morning as part of my daily duties. I scan well over seven papers, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Boston Herald, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, - yada yada yada - and that's not even including the all the magazines (think BusinessWeek, Time, Newsweek, etc). In seeing all of these compilations of ideas, I often find at least one piece that's particularly intriguing. Sometimes it’s hilarious, sometimes it relates to some crazy bit of trivia I find fascinating (Yea Zheng He!), sometimes it reminds me of someone, somewhere. Usually I just e-mail these articles to whomever I feel might share my interest… but from now on, I’m going to start pasting them here. And the first comes from today’s Washington Post.

Smile if (and Only if) You're Conservative
By George F. Will

A new poll reveals that conservatives are happier than liberals. This finding is niftily self-reinforcing: It depresses liberals.

To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/22/AR2006022202012.html?referrer=emailarticle