Do you watch less news now than in the past?

[lawrocket 3]

I don't really watch the news anymore. I find it disturbing and depressing.

I saw Dr. Phil on the Today show who said that my view is not unique. I guess I just one of millions who would rather watch sports or the discovery channel than see rampant disappointment at humankind.

Am I alone on here? Has anyone else limited their intake of news because of the inevitable depression that comes with it?

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[PhillyKev 0]

Don't know how to answer. I'd say I get more news sources now than I have in the past. But very little of it is from television.

[wmw999 2,600]

I'm in the same boat. I listen to it on the radio, but dang -- how many up-to-the-minute updates can a person deal with? It seems to encourage the making of judgements on the smallest possible amount of information.

The prisoners will be just as abused in 2 days when there's been enough time to actually learn something. Iraq will be just as war-torn. Argentina's economy will not have moved appreciably in a week's time. And it's not like my opinion or action makes a damn bit of difference to any of it.

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[DrunkMonkey 0]

Animal Planet and Discovery Channel:

Learned about Guatemala.

Learned Lemurs only come from Madagascar.

Got severely annoyed at the American Chopper roid-raging father bitching at his kid.

Renewed my desire to visit the rainforest, while it's still there.

Learned I want to go to Suriname to go backpacking.

Australia seems neat--gotta go there too.

Despite all the shit going on in the world, it's business as usual in 90% of the world.

[quade 4]

Hmmm, I'm not really sure, so the answer is probably about the same as most of my adult life, which is to say, I still watch it -quite- a bit.

I'm such a news junkie I usually have CNN on in the BG when most other folks would have a CD listening to music. I still have the paper delivered to my house everyday and if I can't read it at home, I usually manage to read in on my cell phone during "down time". I think I might have OCD when it comes to checking CNN on-line both on the laptop and the cell phone. I also glance at a fairly large number of other sources and I know some people aren't going to believe this but the list includes FOXNews.

Then again, I'm not exactly normal.

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