What am I getting from the NYT

Reading the New York Times is still a hard thing to do for me as an international student, because there are so many hard words that I have to pause for a couple of seconds to understand, and it distracts the flow of reading, which makes me hard to focus on what I was reading just a few seconds ago. Despite of this, I am enjoying reading the articles from NYT because it is one way of looking at the world at one time. As I mentioned before, honestly I do not really care about what is going on in our world, because none of these issues directly affects me, therefore, I ignore mostly. I do not watch TV or listen to the radio anymore, and it does really drive me out of communication. However, since reading the NYT was assigned as daily homework-ish task, now I automatically go to the website at least once a day even if I am just checking the headlines, and get at least some kind of information that has been considered important.

I have noticed that there is a lot of news about politics at the home page, especially about the gun policies recently, and other political issues from all over the world. Many of these are posted as the headlines so once it is easily noticed by and attracts the readers. I like how the titles are in bold so they easily catch people’s attention, but at the same time, I do not like how all the most important news are related to politics, or something unpleasant. I know it is not as important as the political articles, but for many times I like to read other articles about technology, lifestyle, or even small local issues, so these are the ones that I usually miss to read when I am busy.