Ben’s Blog

Let me preface this with the fact that I watch and listen to a lot of news.  If I am in the car I listen to talk radio, when I am at home I watch either NBC news or Fox News about 50% of the time that the TV is turned on.  Given this I was a little suprised when I heard this on the news the other day:

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and a strong critic of the Iraq war, died Wednesday after a brain hemorrhage, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Tubbs Jones, 58, died Wednesday evening of a brain hemorrhage caused by an aneurysm that burst and left her with limited brain function, said Eileen Sheil, a spokeswoman for the Cleveland Clinic, which owns the Huron Hospital in East Cleveland where Tubbs Jones died.

I wasn’t really shocked by the news, but rather that the only reason I know of Stephanie Tubbs Jones was because of her appearance on the Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert.  This reminded me of a conversation I had with a coworker once who got most of his news via John Stewart…  I wonder how many people are like him - relying on comedy central for news, or like me - retaining more information from these shows than I ever would have expected.  Anyways, just thought I would share as I found this interesting.