I’m not sure if the timing of last month’s “news free zone” assignment could have been worse or better. Coming just two days after the devastating tsunami hit Asia, how could I realistically expect you to take a two-day break from the news? I wonder if it seemed a bit callous of me to suggest such a thing. But here’s the interesting part: when I sent out the newsletter, I was in the middle of a weeklong news strike and had not yet heard about the disaster. While the rest of the world was watching the tragedy unfold, I was engaged in the act of hibernation.
When I did hear about it, I pondered the implications of “missing” this huge event. As much as I’d like to imagine that my knowledge of the event might have had some positive effect on the region, I’m fairly certain that the people affected by the tsunami did not notice my ignorance.
On a more personal level, if I had learned about the tsunami when it first struck, the information junky part of me would have pushed for an aggressive campaign of information gathering. I only have to look back to the last Gulf war for an example. During the height of that...
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