Blog Post #5

Over the past year, my interest in politics has grown significantly. Now, politics is an extremely touchy subject due to the fact that news sources are all but extinct, as the majority of networks are simply opinion programs, and this is not a hidden fact. Without opinion segments, there would be no network, simply from the fact that reading the news is a twenty second ordeal, and they still have to fill fourteen minutes and forty seconds before the commercial break. My research is constant. I follow current events and watch news networks almost nightly. Research may end there, but that's where the most important elements of politics happen, analyzing the events for yourself, figuring out who has what to gain from transpired events. That is why politics is so much fun for me; it's a game, but the most important game to every day life possible. It's the best of both worlds for me, it is incredibly entertaining, yet still an extremely practical skill. Specifically, the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 is a real thinker. There are so many possible options, from simple mechanical errors, to even possible terrorism, that it is interesting to think of the possible outcomes for yourself, while still accounting for popular theories (much of which could be fear mongering.)