How you think is shaped in large part by what you read - and what you read tends to reflect your interests and biases. This is inevitable, and even necessary when you consider how much information is available, but leads to a skewed understanding of what's happening in the world.
Case in point: according to the headlines of most of the major newspapers I read on a daily basis, the biggest threat swine flu is posing to the world is the damage it is going to cause to the economy. So we've got a potentially massive public health emergency, and I'm reading about how this will affect airlines stocks. Hmm.
It's time to re-evaluate my daily news-gathering routine...
