I'm choosing to 'revise' my post about the NYT as a news source. I found that I didn't really answer the questions. And to those questions that I did answer, I could have given more information. I am using forwarding because I could have inserted more information to this post. (much like a yes..., and....)
Ah. The New York Times. The epitome of a sophisticated newspaper/website/smartphone app/whatever else. Yeah, they have a slight liberal bias, but that's not the point of this post. The point is that after reading one of those articles and not having difficulty with any big words and understanding all of the content, I feel smart. I have grown as a reader and a writer because of reading the NY Times.
I try to stay away from the boring stories, but it is hard to tell which ones are good and which ones ae bad by reading the title and first few lines of the story. However, the stories I read are based of large, important events. This is because the arger more important news stories have a greater interest to me. For example, few stories that I kept up with were: the idiotic Italian Captain of the cruise ship that ran his ship into a rock. Or the Superbowl. Or the nation's current political events.
To be honest the NYT has not had that profound of an impact on myself and my reading habits. I haven't been reading that source of news long enough to have a noticeable change on rhetorical habits, like work or thoughts. However, The Times have impacted my verbatim and reading style. No longer am I a stereotypical Arkansan, with a minimal vocabulary who doen not understand content due to a minimal vocabulary. I am a student at the University of Denver. I can speak good and stuff. Well, y'all know what I mean.
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