general Avoiding the news

[Megas 28,387]

I’ve been trying to avoid the news for the last few years because the last thing I want to hear about at this point is that orange geriatric fuckard 

Edited yesterday at 07:00 PM by Megas

[Violetta Vylet 299]

I avoid the news because what's the point in watching lies. I also don't watch commercials. Sometimes I get news from memes and this is interesting ^-^

[Fluttershutter 3,437]

With no netwrok tv it's amazingly easy to avoid the news. The hard thing would be if I wanted to see it for some reason.

[Clawdeen 25,616]

Avoiding the news on tv itself is easy because I don’t watch it. The problem lies is that it’s everywhere else. People complaining or talking about things on social media, YouTube videos, people at work wanting to talk about things they’ve seen on the news, people sharing online news articles, etc. I can not watch the news all I want but I’m still going to know about what’s going on due to all these other things. 

[Violetta Vylet 299]

I love how no one here likes to watch news 

One day i stopped watching and never missed it.

What we gotta know reaches us anyway 

Edited Sunday at 07:17 PM by Violetta Vylet

[Night Sky 1,329]

I parse the headline on the AP or Reuters once a day. If I feel it's a topic I need to stay informed about, I follow it, but only up to a point. 

Also, I avoid commentary and I don't follow any so called personality journalists. 

Every last one of them is useless for anything but creating echoes in the chambers. 

The trick I think is the quality of the information I take in about subjects that actually matter to me, rather than the content.

There is all kinds of information out there that has nothing to offer me, and staying away from it has a great deal TO offer me. 

A total news black out may be both impractical and not even desirable, but a healthy relationship to the news is clearly a difficult and careful balancing act. 

[Fluttershutter 3,437]

7 hours ago, Clawdeen said:

Avoiding the news on tv itself is easy because I don’t watch it. The problem lies is that it’s everywhere else. People complaining or talking about things on social media, YouTube videos, people at work wanting to talk about things they’ve seen on the news, people sharing online news articles, etc. I can not watch the news all I want but I’m still going to know about what’s going on due to all these other things. 

Exactly. I hear all this crap and don't know WTF they're really talking about. Who knows what the real facts are?

6 hours ago, Violetta Vylet said:

What we gotta know reaches us anyway 

No, not really.

[DubWolf 20,279]

To keep my sanity, I've unsubscribed to all my political channels on youtube. I'll still search for a few of my favorites, but I just don't want to HAVE to see what new plights have to arise on my feed.

[JPete 1,488]

I like to keep myself up to dates, I prefer reading articles with reliable resources since it’s more of an educational approach than getting brain rot from the social media crazes. 

Edited yesterday at 06:43 PM by JPete