According to BBC

I don't know what the average college student uses for current events and news.
For myself, I think it's mostly the BBC news site, the Time magazine I pick up from our house every once in a while and the Argus leader (which, I know, is not the greatest newspaper, but it's free and litters the student center).
Right. I don't remember who or where but it was sometime recently... oh I DO remember who and where! It was in Eng. 200 and Prof. Schelhaas started with an article written about why we should have a draft for Iraq. I think he did it mostly to wake people up and start a discussion. This douchebag who thinks I'm his friend spewed some completely irrelevant and untrue thoughts - blah blah - and Schelhaas patiently waited the shit storm out.
He then asked, "Have you been following the war in Iraq?"
Douchebag: Ha! No. Hahahaa! *Look around for apathetic douchebag behavior approval*

There are some idiots out there...

Um, no. But listen! Have you been following the war in Iraq at all? The meeting of the Koreas? The Burmese protest?

According to BBC, stories about the Burmese monks being detained, the Korean summit and Zimbabwe's flour shortage all took a back seat to

1) Spears loses custody of children

How many of you know the situation with Britney Spears? Show of hands!

How many of you knew about the protests that both monks and civilians assembled in Burma? Who knows who Aung San Suu Kyi is?

Who can give another piece of information from North Korea other than that, "They're crazy! They're crazy! They all want to kill us! No! Seriously!"

(Not an exaggeration. Almost word for word, what a co worker spewed after I had said that I was Korean. Of course, another high schooler asked me if I were North or South Korean and before I could answer, the frenzy began.)

And it wears me out.