Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News

I can also say that when I see "news" articles that concern my area of professional expertise, I can see how uninformed the writers are, and they are almost always wrong, or oversimplifying what's happening. So, I assume they do that in all areas, and usually assume they are clueless.

This is my take on the news. They pick topics that either keep people divided or in a perpetual state of misery. It makes for a good distraction from other things...


Plus, I don't know how they manage to do it, but I have several acquaintances that love being in that perpetual state of misery. You know the type, they just complain about the news they are consuming even though it either has little to no impact on their lives. Even worse, the things that do impact their lives, like higher gas prices and grocery costs, are beyond their individual control with regards to change.

This is an interesting, persuasive and powerful opinion piece.

Several months old but it hit me in the guts.

I am also of an opinion that people would rather cry in pity or misery over all they witness from far via media outlets , but given an actual opportunity "to do something about it" they won't. They can only "feel it" but they can't "do it".

Their fake tears and distant mercy/pity comfort them somehow. That they are still caring and compassionate human beings.

News are full of crap because people want to be lulled to sleep.

Common gossip , biased news, mass manipulation etc. is viewed as valuable knowledge for some.

i use to watch the news and i also use to get so mad at seeing things the way the news would pertray things, it was always ugly stuff to me and to me a lot of lies, so i quit watching about 1 1/2 years ago and NOW i feel better like 100% better, im not out saying i would like to f--ck that person up anymore and ect: it really got me depressed, but my other family members watch the crap and are so freaked out on what is going on, but the funny thing is most of this has been going on for many many years but now they are more intune to the news the more their life has changed for the worst, i try telling them that i feel 100% better but they wont listen. my thought is is that what happens is going to happen, UNLESS millions of americans pull together and protest on key issues that need to be addressed, then the UGLYNESS WILL CONTINUE. just my 3 cents.

RiR0 said:

Even local stories can’t be trusted.
I was at a diner in the city years ago and some cops came in from the scene of a crime that was on the news live and the cops were laughing talking about how different it was from what news was actually reporting.

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i work fire ems and seen a lot of bad stuff, and when i did watch the news and they were talking about a call that i ran and was involved with, it would be not close to the actual crime/ call , hell 95% of the time they dont even give the right area or even cross streets right.

That was an excellent post, @RiR0, and spot-on in every last respect.

I used to be a news junkie. Had subscriptions to three local newspapers (the two major dailies--one with a conservative editorial take and the other liberal, and a more local rag), and two news magazines. Plus I watched local and network TV news nearly daily.

Then I noticed something happening: The stuff being presented as "news" was becoming increasingly inaccurate. I clearly remember what twigged me to this: An article about guns in one of my news magazines. This was a subject about which I knew more than a little, shooting being one of my hobbies. I found the article rife with inaccuracies. (This would've been sometime around the mid-seventies or so.)

Now my radar was lit. If they had that so wrong, what else were they getting wrong? (It hadn't yet occurred to me they might be purposely misleading their readers and watchers.)

I started questioning what I was reading and watching. I began to notice all kinds of subtle clues that what was being presented as "news" was not quite what the journalists and publishers would have you believe it to be. Then came an article in one of my newspapers' Sunday supplements entitled "When Good Guys Lie." It presented a number of examples of things presented as "news" that were subtly, and sometimes not-so-subtly, biased to promote a point-of-view or advance an agenda. (I also couldn't help but notice the bias almost invariably leaned in the same political direction.)

As time went on I observed this becoming more-and-more prevalent. It eventually got to the point where, first, the Dominant "News" Media wasn't even being subtle about it anymore, to clearly lying-by-omission, to the point of outright Making Stuff up from whole cloth.

The bottom line, today: The Dominant "News" Media no longer presents news and today's "journalists" are more propagandists than journalists.

You're better-off without it. You won't be any less informed and you'll probably be a damn sight happier.

Haven't watched TV for 15 years (YouTube I do watch though). No ShitFlix subscription either. It's all a bunch of mindslop to keep you dumbed down. Protected my kid from the internet, and as a result, has no designs on faggotry or becoming a tranny. We can still be wholesome and values-driven in the degenerate, rainbow, pro-pedo apocalyptic society. For real.

shit, i watched 2 commericals yesterday 1 was about being gay and enjoying life, and the 2nd one was 2 guys kissing each other, it was a HIV commercial, wow the shit they allow on tv anymore just blows me away.

MassiveNightmare said:

Haven't watched TV for 15 years (YouTube I do watch though). No ShitFlix subscription either. It's all a bunch of mindslop to keep you dumbed down. Protected my kid from the internet, and as a result, has no designs on faggotry or becoming a tranny. We can still be wholesome and values-driven in the degenerate, rainbow, pro-pedo apocalyptic society. For real.

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you did wot a lot of us gen x'ers did. I have weaned myself from all this hyped up shiite..

I quit watching TV news in the 80's as it was a waste of my time by then. I could read far more newspaper stories in the same time with less slant. Spent years getting a left and right leaning paper everyday for years. Mostly just go to Reuters for the last few years. With the occasional foray into other medias to get different stories of perspectives.

chicago311 said:

shit, i watched 2 commericals yesterday 1 was about being gay and enjoying life, and the 2nd one was 2 guys kissing each other, it was a HIV commercial, wow the shit they allow on tv anymore just blows me away.

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Liberal media (and movie-making) retards are force feeding "the new norm".

The news is a great way to destroy your mental health while actually becoming less “informed”. Nothing but narratives now. Youd have to be braindead to believe any of it.

chicago311 said:

shit, i watched 2 commericals yesterday 1 was about being gay and enjoying life, and the 2nd one was 2 guys kissing each other, it was a HIV commercial, wow the shit they allow on tv anymore just blows me away.

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I keep seeing that HIV commercial every time I watch primetime NFL games. Are there that many gay guys with AIDs watching football?

Diesel59 said:

I keep seeing that HIV commercial every time I watch primetime NFL games. Are there that many gay guys with AIDs watching football?

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You don't think gay guys like sports with sweaty guys in tight pants grappling and rubbing on each other?

buck said:

You don't think gay guys like sports with sweaty guys in tight pants grappling and rubbing on each other?

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I guess you're right. And the NFL knows it apparently.

chicago311 said:

shit, i watched 2 commericals yesterday 1 was about being gay and enjoying life, and the 2nd one was 2 guys kissing each other, it was a HIV commercial, wow the shit they allow on tv anymore just blows me away.

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God damn! For real? They have commercials for HIV now?

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Gadawg said:

The news is a great way to destroy your mental health while actually becoming less “informed”. Nothing but narratives now. Youd have to be braindead to believe any of it.

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i try telling my wife and family members the same thing, but they act like i dont know what im talking about. brain washing is brain washing, and that is what they are trying to do.

what about these kids now days going to school and dressing up and saying they are cats, and our schools allowing same sex gender books to be passed around, shit back in my school days you NEVER heard of stuff like that. but now days they encourage it. what a sad world we live in. we need to get someone in office to get our country back in order period.

chicago311 said:

what about these kids now days going to school and dressing up and saying they are cats, and our schools allowing same sex gender books to be passed around, shit back in my school days you NEVER heard of stuff like that. but now days they encourage it. what a sad world we live in. we need to get someone in office to get our country back in order period.

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When I was in school the kids knew better than to try that weird shit. They would’ve been dunked in toilets and left in a trash can

Gadawg said:

The news is a great way to destroy your mental health while actually becoming less “informed”. Nothing but narratives now. Youd have to be braindead to believe any of it.

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Summed up perfectly, love this.