Do you find that you can no longer watch the news? I mean, short of the weather, I can't handle it anymore. There are so many things that are going on anymore, and so many horrible things, that I just can't bring myself to watch it very long----or at all. I start to get all stressed out. Do you feel me???
2006-08-18 16:03:47 · 41 answers · asked by Genea_80 3 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
to the poster who recommeded PBS and BBC, thanks, I do try to catch news there because it seems a lot less biased than American news.
2006-08-18 16:11:48 · update #1
The news disturbs the heck out of me. I am living in a country where there was recently a war going on and I hardly felt a thing, except that people who watch the news in the states were scared to death and calling me constantly to check on me. The news blows things way out of proportion. Its whole goal is to stress you out and make you scared. I am so mad at news sources I used to trust. Now that I have seen things actually happening with my own eyes and compared them to the news, I am really really really disappointed in them. I can't watch it anymore.
2006-08-19 23:46:03 · answer #1 · answered by liz n 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, you have to realize that bad news makes good ratings. So they're taking advantage of all the bad news. You never hear good news coming from Iraq, it's always bad, bad, and bad. My bro served in Iraq twice, he says that the news is bull, and there's a whole other side to the war.
Word of advice, I'd watch the BBC World news on PBS, they seem to be the least-biased news company. Don't get to riled up about the news. Stay open-mined.
I'm a (PBS mind in a Fox News World)
2006-08-18 16:09:39 · answer #2 · answered by cornelius_joe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am with you. I don't watch the news, read the paper or listen to news radio. I will sometime listen to talk radio around election time and I get politcal news from people I know, some watchdog groups by email and Jon Stewart on comedy central.
I find it easier to take International news from the BBC rather than regular American channels. Surprisingly, I do feel well informed and I certainly know where to look when I need more information about something.
Peace!
2006-08-18 16:12:42 · answer #3 · answered by carole 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know plenty of people who do the same thing, it's getting pretty common these days.
For example, the news channels never played "Blitzkrieg Bop" or "Rock 'n' Roll High School" by the Ramones but they were all over them when they DIED. I was pretty pissed off to see a band like them get downgraded like that, especially when Johnny died from Prostate cancer. They never show any signs of what was life and hope and happiness, now all they show is death and destruction with always a daily thing about some conflict in the Middle East. It's getting really bad now.
2006-08-18 16:13:35 · answer #4 · answered by I want my *old* MTV 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know alot of people who are the same way! I think it is disturbing that they bring up these depressing stories on the news for everyone to know about! I just watch the news for weather and important situations like schools. Its getting pretty sad watching clips from the war and the crime scene of a murder.
2006-08-18 16:11:06 · answer #5 · answered by Autumn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes as a Mom of two lil ones I have a very hard time watching the news. Especially when it involves bad things that happen to children in this World.
2006-08-18 16:09:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I threw my rose colored glasses away a long time ago. Just because we don't like the answers, doesn't mean we should stop asking questions. How can you make an informed decision about your future if you don't have all the information? Everything that happens effects us. I wasn't living in New York, but 9/11 had a profound impact on my life. I can sit in my house and pretend life isn't happening beyond my front yard. But I'd rather know what is happening in my world, than to pretend it doesn't matter. It's very distressing. It's very heart-breaking. But it is also very, very real and I prefer to live in reality.
2006-08-18 16:12:07 · answer #7 · answered by Emm 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
do no longer count selection your chickens till they have hatched. specific, Gush Etzion won't be evacuated in an relatively final settlement deal (notwithstanding Carter in all probability wasn't pertaining to all the settlements there). yet that doesn't advise the land it occupies wont be taken from someplace else. If the eco-friendly line has to settlement in some locations then it relatively is possibly to strengthen someplace else. As for the settlements that are 30 km from the line, properly, they wont final.
2016-10-02 06:42:17 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Sometimes I get so angry (the war), or so sad (when children are murdered), or so frustrated (politics), I just need to withdraw and pretend the world does not exist. I take off the radio, the TV, turn off my computer, turn off the lights, turn down the phone and spend the day in absolute silence. This grounds me and helps me to face that furious, scary world which has too much stimuli.
2006-08-18 16:14:58 · answer #9 · answered by Optimistic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I know what you're talking about. It seems like the news even try to make it more "disturbing" to make people watch their program.
It's just all about the money these days. I wish they would care about individual people they exploit more than the cash-ola, but those days are gone. Everyone is greedy now.
2006-08-18 16:08:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋