I quit watching the news a while ago, and frankly I feel better because of this. No more depressing narratives on things I have no control over and I can instead focus on things I do have control over in my life (rent, bills, taxes, health, job, and family). What is going on in the news does not have an impact on your life and there is nothing you can do about it. The best way is to keep calm and carry on.
Has anyone else done the same?
Ehh… I can’t say i’ve have done the same. Especially since it weighs heavy on my mind about what’s going on.
Oddly enough though, this does remind me of the days when i’ve first heard about Covid-19 and i was honestly worried as hell for this new deadly virus. But after learning more about it, as well being pretty much stuck with it after the first months, i don’t worry about it as much anymore at that point.
Of coarse i do my best to try to take my mind off of it, but it always come back, just in lesser form for the most of the times. 
I keep watching the news. But I stay away from the opinion shows and the monologues centered around US politics. If you watch that, you’ll walk away with a lot less brain cells than you started. Specifically stay clear of CNN, MSNBC, and Fox. Those 3 are the absolute worst.
Stay away from the mainstream media. They aren’t seeking the truth, and they aren’t trying to inform or educate anyone. They simply want to keep their viewer demographic tuned in so that they can sell advertising time. There are independent news people out there, and it is a much more enjoyable and informative experience to tune into some of them.
I haven’t completely stopped watching TV news, I still have the Tivo set to record it. Sometimes I just delete it unwatched, other times I’ll fast forward through it & stop if there’s something that looks interesting. Often the only thing I stop for is the weather.
I don’t watch the news. I have my own source of information. Problem with news network Majority of news network they lied to you. that’s why you see CNN rating is in the gutter because everyone realize that media has been lying to them and people going to watch Fox News instead.
somewhat.
i look online at my local news mostly because of lots of crimes happening past few months on a daily basis. i also check up on financial stuff that affect me because of the war and corona stuff. my job industry isn’t say stable due to corona. my previous job was because we cooked for the elderly but i left that job due to just a ton of backwards stuff like new employee’s with no experience getting paid higher then people who been there for years and have many years of experience and the new workers not pulling their weight.
with my new job i need to be careful because they can and will lay off if they have financial issues like during corona. right now i believe it’s mostly 3 things. 1. gas prices which affect us heavily especially when you live in Hawaii and things get shipped here via plane or boat. 2. food cost as the gas issue drives up food cost as well for the same reason. 3. lack of workers; idk if it’s because people don’t want to work or just they are not offered enough my last job was the same way. offered low pay prior to corona and then now when they got offered more they don’t pull their weight for being there for at least a year.
other then that though not so much. don’t like to deal with all the bs on the news and the news here often has just bunch of random stuff i find online prior to it being on the stations here. living in Hawaii feels outdated imo everything here is kind of lacking in terms of technology.
What is your job specifically? Like what type of company do you work for? Is it like Costco?
I stopped watching television altogether quite a while ago, but still check my local news as well as CNN, FOX News, BBC, and Al Jazeera every day on line.
CNN was once an actual news network, but because the propaganda networks (Fox, MSNBC et al) were getting better ratings (and thus more ad revenue) they went to leaning hard left.
I don’t watch anything by Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, Jim Acosta, Jake Tapper, or the others who present opinion as news, but I do read the news articles.
Fox was originally started to be a right-wing propaganda news site (I base this opinion on the statements of the founder) but again there is some actual news. I certainly don’t watch anything from the “personalities” who have repeatedly claimed to be “entertainers not journalists” when defending untrue made-up stories i.e. Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Tucker Carlson, Greg Gutfeld, … but do read the news articles on the site.
BBC, and Al Jazeera are actually still good news sites, they do host opinion pieces of course but don’t slant the news as much as Fox and CNN.
The Christian Science Monitor is, perhaps, the least biased news site, but they restrict your reading unless you subscribe.
It’s mostly true that there is nothing you can do about most of what is in the news, so if the news upsets you it makes sense simply not to watch it.
Personally, I’m a history buff and watch the news much like I read history, just curios what the actual facts about world events are, I sometimes enjoy debating them, but I’m not deluding myself into believing I can change them.
I haven’t stopped watching the news, rather I have chosen carefully how I digest the news. I find it important to still understand and know what is going on in my local community through the local news stations. As for national news, I tend to watch what is not opinion shows. We all understand Joe Scarborough, Sean Hannity, and Anderson Cooper are all based on their political views rather than delivering unbiased news. That doesn’t mean that shows like NBC Nightly News is biased.
But I also tend to spend my time reading news online as well. It’s much easier to find my news from sources there that I can trust are based on actual journalism rather than pushing an agenda. And I am thankful for it too.
There is too much news. 2 mass shootings, Milwaukee and Buffalo. How can you ignore that? We chose to and say it can’t happen to us then move on
And now a church in Laguna Woods, California and a flea market in Harris County, Texas.
The Buffalo one was a bit too close to home; the idiot who did it had to drive over 200 miles to Buffalo, we’re actually closer to the little town on the Pennsylvania border where he came from.
There’s nothing that we can do about it.
I wish I can say “no” but unfortunately, I catch clips of them on YT.
Yeah, probably back around the time that Cronkite retired.
So, I had a good laugh today, reading news sites and came across an opinion piece with the following quote:
“ … there has always been a path to free higher education. For over 80 years, military service and the GI Bill have enabled millions of Americans to pursue college debt-free …”
I don’t care what side of the political spectrum any of the professional political pundits come from, they all live in a different reality than the rest of us.
i work as a cook. With corona though well when it started they would lay people off due to business and the lack of. MANY got laid off at least where i live idk about your state and even with take out options not many opted for those as they want the dine in experience.
but i think what i was saying is like with gas prices rising that makes our food costs also go up as well as food costs going up in general. it’s not cheap living here either. at my last job we had job security though but yea they would not hire anyone so it was pretty much if only 2 cooks to feed 350 residents thats what we had to work with. management would not help us. dish washer called in sick? that leaves us doing the dishes. right now it’s okay but that just depends on if corona gets worse again and what will happen but for now it’s basically just gas prices/food costs. it’s literally cheaper to buy food and cook at home vs going out and healthier but other then that we really cannot control if people come or not all we can do is marketing stuff
Yeah there is: vote for people who will actually TRY to fix the problem. Not people who make a living out of grifting.
No matter how many gun control laws you put in place, mass shooting will still continue because evil people don’t follow the laws. I also like to point that handgun kills more people than AR-15 and AK-47. if they do mass gun confiscation, that will turn into a civil war. Best to arm yourself, say something if someone you know is behaving oddly.
people of congress doesn’t give a damn you, that’s both Republican and Democrats. They want to keys to the castle. Guns aren’t going be on the ballot this November. Everyone is worry about inflation, the gas prices, immigration, baby formulas and crime within their cities.
why have any laws then, people just gonna break 'em boss