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That strikes me as a healthy response. What do you think?
May 20, 2016
Dire News
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That strikes me as a healthy response. What do you think?
It’s impossible to shut out this constant torrent of doom-mongering unless you’re a mountain hermit. The media is now so ubiquitous and so relentless that you can’t help be exposed to doom and disaster every five minutes. Can there be anyone anywhere who doesn’t know about the missing Egyptian plane for instance? It’s not just information-overload but doom-overload.
It takes commitment and practice. I used to read the headlines every morning to get a jolt and practice my stress management. It worked!
Had I been King, I wouldn’t have waited for the last bit before bonking the news reader.
I agree, but the comic wouldn’t have been so effective. 🙂
I think this whole era has a monster under the bed mentality.
they have made multi billion dollar industries from the SCARY stuff.
from movies and video games and tv shows and news shows…
and let’s face it. the news shows and I use the word ‘show’ on purpose…
are nothing more than competitive rating mongers!
the age of any kind of serious journalism is OVER. (if it ever was!)
I love your cartoon choices! LOL!
The Wall Street Journal used to have some great in-depth articles — some of the best writing in the world. That went away when Murdock bought it, but The Economist and other sources still have serious journalism. The trouble is it’s expensive and most people don’t want to spend the time and money on it. Print readership has gone down drastically, which means advertisers are spending less money there so the subscribers have to pay more. The Economist is $152 a year, even the more popularized WSJ costs over $1 a day. Andy still reads the WSJ every day, I subscribe to the New York Times digital, which is $15 a month.
I’m glad you like the cartoons too. 🙂
Yup. I stopped watching the evening news years ago and I have never been sorry.
Same here. The internet or print can go into more depth and gives us a choice as to where we want to direct our attention.
I’ve often thought I should just stop watching the News.
At least on the Internet I can click to the next thing.
But then of course, I get worried that I would miss something.
But show silly of me, I mean, that’s the point! LOL!
I think you can get more news from the internet than you can from TV. As you say, on the internet (or reading) you have control over where to place your attention.
I rarely read a full-on newspaper and I don’t have a TV – so I like I can click through the Net if I wish or not
even here when a heavy rain is expected – news starts by saying “maybe…then launches into a diabolical series of things that “might” happen” – it almost telling the most vulnerable to shoot out to the supermarket and stock up…