Reading/Hearing/Seeing The News Makes You Feel . . .

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**Manchu**

Sick of the news yo.

I'm so tempted to tune out. How has alcoholism and other drug use not risen to unbelievable new heights with the advent of our modern communication revolution?

Or is the non-news/blogosphere portion of the internet the only thing keeping us from giving up?

**Orkeosaurus**

**Soladrin**

Having no hope in the species from the start helps i guess

But in all seriousness i really don't think much about things that don't directly effect me, however short sighted that may seem.

**Manchu**

Soladrin wrote:But in all seriousness i really don't think much about things that don't directly effect me, however short sighted that may seem.

I think we can file that under "Confused." But more and more I wish what you're saying was true.

Open your eyes . . .

. . . I see . . .

. . . your eyes are open.

**JEB_Stuart**

Bah, I read the news almost all day. I love several news papers and read cnn.com, the Drudge Report, the Times of London, and Der Spiegel among others. I found long ago that the news is hardly ever good, so I usually become depressed then angry. Meh, I don't know why I get so riled up...

**Pipboy101**

**Cheese Elemental**

Watching the news makes me feel depressed.

Like this morning when I read the news on the ABC (Australia) website. Oh, the Large Hardon Collider hasn't killed us all? That's nice.

Then my paranoia kicked back in and now I'm worried the scientists are lying to us. Feels bad man.

**Cannerus_The_Unbearable**

It makes me feel confused because I can't believe anyone else would take it seriously.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Gave up listening to the news
One:it's mostly depressing bad stuff to scare Middle-England gakkless and then you get all the inevitable backlash of nonsensical reactionary tosh.
Two: It's mostly gakky sound bites and speculation made to to scare Middle-England Shirtless and then you get all the inevitable backlash of nonsensical reactionary tosh.
Three: Quite frankly I don't give a damn if Foo-Foo Le Botritis has just dumped her cheating hubby after six months wedded bliss.

Did I mention that it is depressing and guaranteed to turn mild mannered reporter Chibi Nice-chappie into GOM mode wanting to let loose with AK-47 and RPG!!!

It's not a good way to start the day.

Nah! stuff the news

**ShumaGorath**

I find news. I don't wait for the 24 hours or some idiot on the radio to tell me what they think is important happened.

**dogma**

Why is there no 'ambivalent' choice? The news usually makes me feel ambivalent. Or calculating, if I'm reading something about the Middle East.

**Manchu**

Robot Unicorn Attack is the ambivalent option, i.e. "I just care about media that isn't news." It's also the default "the news makes me feel optimistic about our great future together" option.

I kind of expected to tap into a greater vein of pain and anguish on this one, tbh . . .

**Ratbarf**

Like this morning when I read the news on the ABC (Australia) website. Oh, the Large Hardon Collider hasn't killed us all? That's nice.

Ahem, that would be Hadron collider thank you very much. Not some fencing match.

Reading/Hearing/Seeing The News Makes You Feel . . . Like we should just get rid of Africa already. Its like some big black hole where all our money and christians dissapear into....

**Golden Eyed Scout**

Angry because I'm confused.

But I'm usually confused, so it's nothing new.

**Kanluwen**

Makes me sick of the stupidity from editorials.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Like we should just get rid of Africa already. Its like some big black hole where all our money and christians dissapear into....

Missionaries are being cooked in large cauldrons by fuzzy wuzzies with bones through their noses even as we speak

Think you will find that it is the banking system which is a huge Black Hole sucking vast amounts of cash and taking Christian souls down into hell

**Emperors Faithful**

Ratbarf wrote:.

Reading/Hearing/Seeing The News Makes You Feel . . . Like we should just get rid of Africa already. Its like some big black hole where all our money and christians dissapear into....

**Vindicator#9**

I am in the angry and confused choice. Angry because people and media are dumb and biased. Confused at why people are this way. I have learned as soon as politics are talked about on the news it is best for me just to change the channel. I am so tired of media spinning stories to better suit their views on subjects. The only news that i can find that is not completely biased is HLN. As of late i have just been changing the channel altogether due to the stupidity of the world.

**Manchu**

@Kanluwen: This gets to the heart of my current problem with the news--it is overwhelmingly editorial. I don't mind that people have opinions. I don't even mind that people have different opinions from mine. What rankles is the absence of any actual dialog between right and left and their respective party organs. Here's how it should go:

Republican: So what if we spent $9500 on strippers?

Democrat: I didn't say anything about it. Now let's talk about this health care reform.

Republican: Okay, well I don't like these parts. I'll admit these other parts are good but this and this have to go.

Democrat: Well, I can see why that part is bothering you but surely we can come to an agreement on the other one . . . etc, etc, etc.

Instead the headlines read: "Democrats Turn Out To Be Socialists" or "Republicans Are Heartless Maniacs"

**Kanluwen**

Well of course it's overwhelmingly editorial. We simpletons here in the States obviously need to be spoonfed how we should feel about everything. Read the comments on criminal cases at some point on a local/national news outlet.
You can have someone pointing out inconsistencies in the case or serious breaches in due process(such as a law enforcement spokesperson releasing incriminating evidence to the media and prosecution, before proceeding to stonewall the public defender/defense attorney with "the evidence is being tested")--and they get shouted down by the people who quote the news article line for line, or how "YOU SHOULD GET OUT OF AMERICA IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT <INSERT RANDOM COUNTRY OF ORIGIN HERE>!".

**SlaveToDorkness**

I make a point of not watching/reading. It's all depressing CRAP.

**Manchu**

Along those lines, ever hear someone talk about how criminals should be punished as they are in other countries, often times Middle Eastern countries. The sentiment seems to be "America is the most free and greatest nation on earth . . . now if it was just a bit more like Saudi Arabia . . ." As the koolkids say, lolwut? But I'm more talking about how everything is doomed to fail. I was reading the Richmond Times Dispatch at lunch today (mistake number one) and flipped to the op/ed section (mistake number two) only to find that HCR would most certainly ensure that federal funds pay for abortions. The source for this interpetation? The Bioethics Defense Fund . . . so much for caring about the truth of the matter. In this case, I got what I deserved: editorial--clearly printed at the top of the page, mind you. But is it too much to ask that even editorial should be something more than a regurgitation of some lobbyist group's talking points? Maybe lobbyists should just take out front page advertisements and dress them up as article so that newspaper readers will (continue to) not realize that they're being sold a legal/moral/political position just as much as they are being sold a gallon of Tide detergent out of the coupon section. It comes to the same thing.

**Albatross**

The news doesn't generally make me angry or depressed - unless Gordon Brown's misshapen 'face' appears on it. But in general I pretty much love the BBC. It seems to me, on the surface at least, that there is a lot of 'opinion' on American news programs - that would annoy me. Especially since the people providing these opinions seem to be the sort people I wouldn't trust to go to the toilet unaided, in terms of raw intelligence.

Like I say, that's how it seems on the surface.

**Da Boss**

The only TV news I watch anymore is the BBC World Service when I'm on holidays. Our home grown news is like BBC Lite with more government pandering and less journalism, so I got bored of it. I don't watch TV habitually anyway.
The only paper I read is the Irish Times, and it's not the best ever but it is the best Irish newspaper. It still makes me angry, but not at how the news is reported, more the actual content.

American news? Wow. Wow. It's a whole other kettle of fish.
It seems poisonous and horribly unethically run, for the most part. Possibly that's just because the worst of the worst gets pointed out to me, but you'd never get away with calling that news over here, and we're not even close to having the journalistic integrity of certain british institutions.

**Emperors Faithful**

The ABC here is fair enough, I guess. Funnily, we Aussies DO get the occasional good story every second night or so. Probably a 3 min skit on how Susy-such-and-such overcame this and got an A++ or something. Then it goes straight back to pedos on the internet and violence in schools.

But, decently enough, it remains unbiased enough throughout the whole thing.

**Cheese Elemental**

Emperors Faithful wrote:The ABC here is fair enough, I guess. Funnily, we Aussies DO get the occasional good story every second night or so. Probably a 3 min skit on how Susy-such-and-such overcame this and got an A++ or something. Then it goes straight back to pedos on the internet and violence in schools.
But, decently enough, it remains unbiased enough throughout the whole thing.

Hey EF, you ever managed to sit through 'Today Tonight' on Channel Seven without wanting to throw your TV out the window?

I know I haven't.

**Ratbarf**

Think you will find that it is the banking system which is a huge Black Hole sucking vast amounts of cash and taking Christian souls down into hell

Kinda meant charity money/releif aid. Every ten years Ehtiopia has a famine where millions die and all the missionaries go over to help and the government spends millions of dollars just so that the kids (of wich they have too many already) can survive until the get to die as teenagers when the next famine hits in 10 years. Really, if you want my money to go towards anything in Africa it had better be either bombs or sustainable agricuilture/popualtion growth.

**Emperors Faithful**

@Cheese: ABC, mate. ABC. The best thing about it? No ads.

What a relief.

**Cheese Elemental**

Emperors Faithful wrote:@Cheese: ABC, mate. ABC. The best thing about it? No ads. What a relief.

Oh gak yeah. ABC1 and ABC2 are the only channels I watch these days. It's such a relief being able to sit through Doctor Who without ads jumping in the way to break up the storyline.

**Emperors Faithful**

Doctor Who For The Wi-....What the feth happened to David Tennant? ...What you mean he...but...why...?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0000000000000000000000000000OOOOOOO!!!!!!!1!!!!!!

And here I was expecting the grand finale...