I had a lot of time while waiting for the Newmarket bus this afternoon so I got through pretty much the whole paper instead of just the news. The articles that I enjoyed most were in the "New York" section. One was about the ethics of documentaries. Apparently, a documentarian in New York is facing some trouble because he was found out to have staged a major scene in his movie. He said he didn't think it a big deal because the incident did happen, just not whilst shooting it.
Another article I enjoyed was about the NYC PATH subway line. Virtually unknown to most, this smaller less used route goes diagonally through New York and only has about 10 stops. However the PATH has many advantages if you are lucky enough to live on the line: it is almost half as cheap as the New York Subway, it is much cleaner, less noisy, always on time, and less crowded.
The article that I most enjoyed was in the first news section of today's paper on page A16. "National Parks Reach Out to Blacks Who Aren't Visiting" by Mireya Navarro is about how African American forest ranger at Yosemite National Park, Shelton Johnson. Last year Johnson wrote to the Oprah Winfrey show in an effort gain a greater tourist percentile from African Americans. The article talked about how out of the hundreds of national parks the U.S. has to offer, less than 1 percent are visited by African Americans.
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