krrf
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Post by krrf on May 5, 2022 6:31:24 GMT -5
Not sure about y'all, but at this point I've basically stopped watching the news and only ingest cat pictures as my entertainment. I'm tired of this news cycle. As a society we seem to be slipping into running from one panic to another.
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Post by modbus on May 5, 2022 6:53:52 GMT -5
This is my little buddy. He was a stray that just showed up one day. He's a good kitty.
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Post by Leftee on May 5, 2022 7:01:51 GMT -5
I “rebalanced” my intake a few years ago and I’m much happier for it.
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Post by LeftyMeister on May 5, 2022 7:06:12 GMT -5
Doom fatigue, indeed! I unplugged from the news two years ago.
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Post by gato on May 5, 2022 7:11:28 GMT -5
I read four newspapers a day, just to get a broad spectrum injection of world events. I've given up on TV news altogether.
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michael
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Post by michael on May 5, 2022 7:54:55 GMT -5
we don't watch NATIONAL news... we watch the local and it's bad enough. they dramatize everything and exploit the people they interview. it looks to me like they try to pick out the funniest looking/talking/dumbest person they can find to tell their story.
if i see them coming to interview me, i'm going the OTHER direction 
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Post by HenryJ on May 5, 2022 8:03:08 GMT -5
"I get all the news I need from the weather report.
I can gather all the news I need from the weather report."
from "The Only Living Boy in New York." Simon and Garfunkel, over 50 years ago.
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Post by slacker 🐨 on May 5, 2022 9:37:48 GMT -5
We had one of the three local news stations change their slogan to "Built for Breaking News!!!!". Every story became a huge scandal with the reporting being full of dramatic phrasing and emphasis. I watched for a week or so for laughs. It was really comical, but got old quickly.
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on May 5, 2022 10:07:19 GMT -5
The job of TV news is to make you sit through commercial breaks. We always expected it from certain sensational outlets, but it has spread so much that even NPR has dropped down. Recently NPR informed me that "Disco Sucks" t-shirts are racist. Then the smug food "expert" describes making a salad in the most ostentatious terms possible. Every time someone they don't like says something on Twitter, it is "the end of democracy as we know it".
It is genuinely exhausting. We keep a radio going at work, and it definitely puts me in a worse mood.
The irony is that there ARE things to be genuinely worried about, but apparently those aren't the things that sell....? The news will worry about virtually non-existent domestic terrorist groups, but ignore skyrocketing housing prices.
The really talented journalists seem to have gone to Substack or started podcasts or something else. None of them feel welcome or at liberty to really pursue the things they want in the larger organizations. Throwing in some good analysis can be really helpful. I'll see stuff very carefully pulled apart by very smart people, and then the lies just keep going on cable news.
The bonus is that as they keep smelling each others' farts, no one is watching. CNN+ has 300M invested and shut down in 22 days, with daily viewers being something like 10,000.... smaller than even a startup YouTube channel.
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Post by ninworks on May 5, 2022 11:01:15 GMT -5
Yeah, the news media is a joke on all fronts. I did away with it 3 years ago and refuse to look at it on any level. The overblown sensationalism and spin that is applied to everything, no matter which side of the aisle you're on, is ridiculous. I don't know how anyone can take that stuff seriously. Crisis sells ads, PERIOD! They don't askeer me. If I didn't know better, and broadcast news told me the Sun was coming up tomorrow, I'm not sure I would believe them. For them it would be, "Breaking news, NASA proclaims, due to extensive research, the earth will be bombarded by almost immeasurable amounts of cancer-causing radiation from outer space tomorrow and there is indisputable evidence that this will be continuing for the foreseeable future. Stay indoors for protection. Tune into the Ten O'Clock news for details."  |
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Post by jazzmastertele2020 on May 5, 2022 11:15:35 GMT -5
I unplugged a couple years ago. I realized that when I was a teenager and young adult, I didn’t pay attention or participate. And the world went on turning the same way regardless of my level of involvement.
So instead of staying up on current events, consuming news, etc., I threw myself back into guitars and music. Ignorance is bliss. Or less aggravating anyway!
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Post by orrk01 on May 5, 2022 11:19:51 GMT -5
I quit watching the TV News years ago. My wife still watches but she got so tired of my running commentary about what they were pedaling that she finally turned down the sound and put on closed captioning. That suits me just fine.
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Post by ninworks on May 5, 2022 11:25:07 GMT -5
Life's too short to live it being angry all the time because of what someone tells you someone else is doing, or is going to do, whether it's true or not, according to their panel of so-called "experts." Every single one of their "experts" is a politician, author, online personality, etc, that is trying to boost their popularity in order to either sell something or get re-elected. I got real tired of being mad all the time and made the conscious decision to let them all spout their nonsense without me. I will in no way be a part of boosting their ratings. If my wife didn't love it, I wouldn't even own a TV set.
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Post by NoSoapRadio on May 5, 2022 11:25:36 GMT -5
As a society we seem to be slipping into running from one panic to another. That's the plan -- pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, just look at all the shiny objects I keep pulling out of my ass. |
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Post by LeftyMeister on May 5, 2022 11:41:42 GMT -5
^ Someone once said, "Never let a good crisis go to waste."
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Post by Leftee on May 5, 2022 12:34:26 GMT -5
As a society we seem to be slipping into running from one panic to another. That's the plan -- pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, just look at all the shiny objects I keep pulling out of my ass. I don’t pay any attention to the man behind the curtain. It’s all outside my sphere of influence. |
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Post by dadzmad on May 5, 2022 14:27:45 GMT -5
"although tomorrow don't look that good" Teddy hangs out in my garage next to the Emi 1518  |
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Post by Auf Kiltre on May 5, 2022 15:21:31 GMT -5
You can close your eyes to the dragon, just don't be surprised when you feel it's flame.
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Post by Leftee on May 5, 2022 15:27:45 GMT -5
I just glance every once in a while.
Good enough… I sez.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on May 5, 2022 15:35:07 GMT -5
I just glance every once in a while. Good enough… I sez. Agreed. Looking too long and hard will make you go blind. Fine line between staying informed and getting absorbed by it all, especially because of the insidious manner of delivery of information. |
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Post by Leftee on May 5, 2022 15:36:13 GMT -5
Casper has it right.  |
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Post by Leftee on May 5, 2022 15:37:54 GMT -5
I just glance every once in a while. Good enough… I sez. Agreed. Looking too long and hard will make you go blind. Fine line between staying informed and getting absorbed by it all, especially because of the insidious manner of delivery of information. “Informed” I chose to call it “slightly better than completely ignorant.” |
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Post by Auf Kiltre on May 5, 2022 15:43:44 GMT -5
Me and grand kitty Bingi staying "informed" 😄  |
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Post by hilltop87 on May 5, 2022 16:02:33 GMT -5
Negativity is something to be avoided for sure. Profiting on the misery of others is wrong. I gave up watching the news long ago.
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Post by modbus on May 5, 2022 16:24:44 GMT -5
Those are some good looking kitties.
The first thing I noticed going off the rails in regards to news was weather reporting. The news critters would go into full panic mode over the most mundane "bad" weather. You just knew if it was raining or their were snow flurries the local weatherman was going to constantly break into programming telling everybody to seek shelter immediately, lest you're gonna die.
Now it seems like all the news, and pretty much everyone, is like that these days. It sure would be nice to dial back the shrillness of modern communication.
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Post by Seldom Seen on May 5, 2022 16:39:57 GMT -5
Yep gave up on TV news over two years ago. I read online local news in the three states I frequent, check the market and precious metals spot prices, and that’s all the “news” I can handle.
Love the cats!
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Post by oldnjplayer on May 6, 2022 6:09:36 GMT -5
Don't know what you are all talking about... as he climbs back into the 1950 bomb shelter.....
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Post by gbfun on May 7, 2022 1:28:48 GMT -5
Dang. I don't bother with most of the news either(except for world wide monitoring of that which can't be named...my hobby !  Which begs the question...if WE aren't watching the hysterical news...what large group of people ARE watching... and buying enough things in the ads to make it profitable ? Those must be some REALLY stressed out, misinformed people ! |
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Post by fkaJimmySee on May 7, 2022 3:52:52 GMT -5
Basically, I deal with what I can control or at least influence. I've got enough drama in my own professional life.
The great philosopher Paul McCartney offered excellent advice in that regard:
And anytime you feel the pain,
Hey, Jude, refrain
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders.
^^^^^works for me.
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Post by ninworks on May 7, 2022 6:05:15 GMT -5
Which begs the question...if WE aren't watching the hysterical news...what large group of people ARE watching... and buying enough things in the ads to make it profitable ? My wife is one and she is always stressed out about what they are reporting. She is enough of an impulse buyer when shopping that I hate to take her shopping with me. She is such a sucker for just about any kind of marketing. A pretty blue box or bottle will sell her anything. If it's hanging out into the aisle she has to stop and read the label. Almost every time we go grocery shopping together the bill is 30 to 50 percent higher and takes twice the time than if I were to go by myself. I think the people who are watching and shopping are basically women. They are the ones driving the day to day economy. |
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