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I don't. I mostly stopped actively choosing to watch, listen to or read mainstream news many years ago. Long ago I concluded that mainstream media news is almo
by eva_cananim 3y ago
I don't. I mostly stopped actively choosing to watch, listen to or read mainstream news many years ago.
Long ago I concluded that mainstream media news is almost entirely negative, I have no control over any of the events that are going on about and I don't need to, or won't, behave differently in response to any of it.
I don't need that negativity in my life. I hate the over dramatisation on television. I'm irritated by the frequent deception by omission. I don't want to get sucked into spending many hours watching 24hour TV news repeat the same story over and over.
If there is an approaching hurricane or a global pandemic then usually I will hear someone mention it in the pub.
The pub sometimes has a TV on silent showing 24hour news with subtitles or I come across a newspaper. That is enough for me.
I want to read about peoples personal projects, personal successes, their home grown vegetables and bike rides. I want tech news about an arduino board with a faster cpu.
But you do you, you can use your life as you wish.
- xp84 3y agoAbsolutely concur here. So-called “news” is so heavily selected for outrage generation and/or clickbait potential that I avoid it completely. With the exceptions of Bloomberg for financial and business news to help me with investing choices. Everything else—I mean, even if my country were going to war, my perspective is irrelevant since i won’t be consulted for my opinion anyway. It all falls into the category of things I can likely do nothing about anyway, so why increase my blood pressure reading or thinking about it?