24-Hour Not-Really-News
For a few years now I have avoided viewing TV "news" fairly successfully, and it has truly been nothing but beneficial. Every once in a while though it surprises me, like the old pie-in-the-face bit, but in slow motion...and as the filling starts to inevitably engulf my face...I realize with horror that it is made not of cocount cream...it is made ( Read more... )
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It's a ratings game. No one seems to actually care about the people...the real story.
Nearly all the focus is on the criminal(s) instead of the victims because that's what sells. Drama.
When Charlie's mom was murdered and the news did its obligatory pornographic spiel, they got half of everything reported wrong. And they tried hard to focus on gruesome details instead of her or her life or the wake of sadness left in the lives of those who loved her.
Like you, I try not to watch news anymore. In some ways, it does disconnect me from important events. I'm not up to speed on what's going on the world, but if it's something big, Facebook will let me know and then I can find out what I want from various sources. Otherwise, going news-free has removed a great deal of emotional negativity.
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There is a show on Netflix called "The Killing" which was mostly slow and uninteresting, but they did explore things from the side of the family and the shit they deal with between the media and police. Of course it's fiction and probably misses the mark in many ways, but I think it's important that we consider the impact on the lives of those families and friends of victims who are left to deal with the aftermath. Empathy and compassion are sorely lacking.
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But yeah. no news is the best thing for the mental stuff and the heart stuff. otherwise we all go a little crazy and our hearts break over and over.
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