general Avoiding the news

[Megas 28,412]

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 November 11 by Megas

[Violetta Vylet 363]

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 3,461]

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 25,692]

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 363]

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 November 9 by Violetta Vylet

[Night Sky 1,405]

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 3,461]

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 20,391]

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 1,578]

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 November 11 by JPete

[Dawnshine Wonder 4,319]

The news is important, however being repeatedly exposed to negative stories is not healthy for our minds. A lot of what is in the news is hearsay or exaggerated, and I'd rather not go that pessimistic route again. Better to get information from independent outlets or articles that discuss science. They tell it how it is, not what we want to hear or are afraid of hearing. Our survival is not guaranteed, but that does not mean we should not make the best of the here and now.

[Luciferase 48]

Its good to generally keep in touch with what's going on, but our minds are just plain not designed for this constant, unending stream of information, let alone a constant stream of negativity and stress. Plus, with how over-sensationalized the news have become these days, the over-reliance on AI to write up stories without making sure what its generating is correct, and the massive telephone game that is social media, its getting harder and harder to get some actual unbiased and factual reports these days 

Friendly reminder to remember to turn off social media, put down your electronics, and if you can, do some kind of activity that doesn't involve the internet for even just an hour or so. Your mental health will thank you for it!

[Envy 6,494]

I'm a part of some vulnerable groups so unfortunately I have to pay at least some attention to the news. I refuse to listen to the deranged sex predator leader of my country directly, though. Which is not for the best because news is so incredibly exaggerative and clickbaity these days. And I mean, come on, things are really, really, really bad. You really don't even need to exaggerate to get clicks at this point, and yet, still.