A decreased interest in politics and news

[badger2305]

This may be a function of getting older, but I find myself with a decreasingly interest in politics and news. I used to be quite the news junkie - staying up late to watch the midnight rerun of the (then-)MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, following national politics and news, subscribing to The Economist and reading BBC news, among other sources

Comments

[tandw]

I think I'm a bit less economically socialist than you, but I sympathize entirely. My take on it, though, is that the vast majority of television news is...what's a good word? Inane. It's not just the science-related arguments, it's the forcefitting of pretty-much everything into whatever preconceived narrative seems most convenient at the time.

Si!

[lsanderson]

In general, the level of political discussion in this country has gone to the dogs, the stark raving bonkers pack. Politians no longer speak -- they pontificate the true annointed word, and since everything they pontificate is true, questions and details are unnessesary.

Anybody remember that Irish woman who dared to question Baby Bush's answers?

[opalsprite]

Indeed. Yes.