What I Read Last Week (20200622~20200628, The New York Times, NYT Subscription)

Subscribing a Newspaper?

Do you subscribe any newspaper? I guess I should put it this way.
Do you still subscribe newspapers?
I remember a guy riding a motorcycle throwing a newspaper into a house over the fence. Of course there were mail boxes in each house but they just threw it and it landed in the front yard aggressively. That’s how people had their newspapers delivered in Korea 20 years ago. As you know people started to read less and less news printed on paper and those guys on motorcycles got more and more hard to be spotted. “News Subscription” may sound pretty boring and old like some of my memories. Why does anyone subscribe a newspaper if there is countless and endless news you can reach out there for free on the internet? Is it really worth subscribing a newspaper in 2020? What kind of person still subscribes a newspaper?

That’s me. I do!

I do subscribe some newspapers but I don’t have a guy on a motorcycle anymore. My paper isn’t delivered by a pitcher in the morning. My ipad is my guy! It connects me to the best news publisher in the world any time I want and with 1-click I can get full access of the news on the website. What an interesting world I live in!

My Subcription List

So here’s my subscription list.
I subscribe the New York TImes, the Washington Post, and the Economist. Not only one but three!
Is it worth paying?
They’re actually better than you can imagine. My favorite is the New York Times. It has such a great range of sections with strong, important subjects. What I usually read is the main page, science, economy, opinion, and the Learning Network. One of the reasons why I enjoy reading the New York Times is the Learning Network. It is one of the special corners of the NYT. It suggests various ways to use NYT articles to teach students in class. From the current issues to special events and contests, it gives a lot of opportunities for teachers and students to connect the real world stories to the lessons we learn at school. The section makes the learning process look more vivid and alive.

Recently Viewed

For a few days ago I found a special function of the NYT. It’s the “Recently Viewed” section. It sounds like the most basic function on any reading websites but I havent’ noticed it before. When I check the section, I was a bit surprised. My whole reading history was breathing quietly down there waiting for me to check. This is the screenshot of the list.

The path I walked on

The NYT showed me that I read more than 30 articles. There were some specific issues that I was interested in last week. The BLM rallies, vandalism, the relationship between the Trump’s Tulsa rally and K-pop stans, the new helicopter Ingenious and NASA’s Mars Project, climate change and education. The titles represented what I had in mind for the last seven days. The list showed me where my thoughts drifted on a path which I didn’t event noticed that I was making. Hmm... This was me last week.

35 articles

It might not seem like a big number for you but ‘35’ made me feel pretty good. I don’t know how many articles other teachers, girls, woman, students, or people read a week. So literally I can’t compare myself to someone else. (Maybe that’s what makes me truly happy.) But the fact that I can actually see how much I read a week is what inspires me. Now I feel like I’m standing at a start line, like a zero point. It makes me want to run, rush, check and run again. The only problem is that I’m not sure where I’m supposed to go. Like a feather floating wherever the wind leads to. I feel like a very light feather at this moment. When I read news I just keep read. I don’t look for specific keywords. I just get driven by my pointless interests. It’s not important how many I articles I read. What matters is that I’m the only participant here. It’s not a race with anybody but me. I don’t need to feel nervous about it at all because what I read is what gives me my way.