Anyone else here sick of the news?

[Luveno]

This isn't a great revelation by any means, but I've recently become very bothered with news.

Television news is just a bunch of midwestern prom queens and ex-high school quarterbacks(with a little asian/indian flavor (but never middle eastern)thrown in there for good measure) letting us know about terrible crimes that happen nowhere near us and do not concern us in the least, how we should be paranoid about video games and music, and a bunch of other stuff that reminds the average man that he is a useless ape and lives among other useless apes.

The only sections(of TV and newspaper) that consistently have "good" news in them are the sports and entertainment section. It's like implying that the only people capable of achievement worth noting are millionaire actors and athletes - everyone else is a criminal or should be paranoid about being victimized by one.

Terrible.

 

[Snatchmaster]

Yeah, like we should give a f*ck about missing white women.

Aaah! I hate Nancy Grace with her daily hashing of the Aruba girl. What a waste of television.

 

[tristan22]

I'm sick of people supporting celebrities and making them richer. I'd much rather hear about real news, instead of the Hollywood nonsense that plagues the media outlets.

 

[diplomatic_lies]

If you're interested in "intellectual news" (aka. nerd news), try specialist magazines and publications. Many will have 100-page essays on the reasoning behind the growth of decentralization in East Africa or the specifics of Russia's present biological weapons status.

Personally I never read the news. A politician signing some papers in Afghanistan or Albania's 25.13415% growth in the cottage cheese industry doesn't concern me. And frankly, people who read the news just to pretend they're "intellectual" annoy me.

 

[Flyer]

ya.. I stopped watching news.. it was so unproductive.

So what if they are convo topics? I'll prefer to let real people fill me in instead of some electronic image.

 

[Flogger]

news.google.com

scan that occasionally and you'll never be left in the dark

television news (at least in the US) is for mental infants