I can hardly watch the news anymore. For one it’s so packed with propaganda and bias it makes me lament and grieve for those old fashioned journalistic ideas like just give the “what, where, and why” and allow readers to form their own opinions. Forget that, that simply isn’t done anymore. It’s more like “watch us and we will tell you how you feel, what you believe, and shape your opinion for you.” I have an aversion to people messing with my head and feeding me coconut candy.
Second of all, it’s downright terrifying. As in, good grief, is this this human race? I mean, I already know we’re rather sad and a pathetic, but this is just ridiculous. Part of the problem is that their job is to search the globe for dirty laundry. So out of 7 billion people in the world, they zone in on the one guy who tossed an alligator through the drive through window at Wendy’s. That really happened! Well allegedly anyway, you can’t even be certain every story they tell is real. After watching just that one story my entire perception of the world was filled with lunatics who terrorize fast food workers.
To free my mind of that horror, there was a terrible tiger mating accident at the zoo. The female tiger got killed. There’s no moral to this story, nothing we can really learn here, but the words “mating accident” are pretty good click bait. I clicked! I mean, who doesn’t want to know about the potential dating dangers of tigers?
There was a case where some 46 cops and correction officers got swept up in a corruption drug bust. That’s just downright depressing but corruption, people misusing their authority, is so over done these days as to be downright boring. I mean, you want something rare and unusual, try finding someone ethical with a servant’s heart. We’d probably all point and stare as if the aliens had landed. Some would probably even laugh, like, what a moron! Where’s the payoff in having integrity and ethics?
I should have just thrown in the towel at this point, but the case of the missing feet has once again captured my imagination. For those who don’t know, about a dozen feet have now washed up on the beach. That’s pretty horrifying and gruesome, but what fascinates me is that nobody really seems to care. These stories are a paragraph in the back of the paper somewhere. Or a few lines on the news, so nonchalant, so unconcerned, as if yep, more disembodied feet have been found. Oh well, such is life.
Human feet just kind of bob up and down in the ocean, like the way the rain falls and the sun rises. They’re also quick to point out that authorities have no reason to suspect foul play. This just drives me crazy. I mean the very fact that you have discovered human body parts where they don’t belong, must mean something. Like, where did they come from? Why are they there? What does this mean? Call me crazy, but I don’t think this is normal. I think there’s a story in there somewhere.
So we grieve for an alligator and a tiger and reassure everyone that the mystery of the missing human feet is really no big deal, certainly nothing worth looking into, no foul play, no cause for concern, just move along now…..
I can hardly watch the news anymore. It just messes with my head and it’s already messy up there.
The V-Pub said:
My favorite part of the news is when they don’t follow up. Case in point, Hillary saying that there’s no investigation. The reporters take that as a factual answer, instead of pressing on with evidence that there IS an investigation and a subpoena. Sigh. Can we please have some integrity in our press corps?
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insanitybytes22 said:
I know, right? “There’s nothing to see here,” used to be like journalistic bait or something. Nothing makes you want to sniff out a story more than someone telling you nothing is going on! I mean seriously, walk into a room full of kids who promptly tell you “nothing going on here,” and you just know nothing is certainly something. 😉
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ColorStorm said:
Was just talking to a friend about this last nite.
Mind numbing CNN, the head exploding Shep Smith, the word ‘allegations,’ concerning people who are completely found out………..or watching an interview, then hearing a panel tell me what I just heard, and I wonder: ‘did u just watch what I did?’ Oh the spin………..
Or the morning shows with the audiences ‘laughing’ when the host says: Snow is cold……………..’ Please people.
But my fav? When the sports casters use the word ‘unbelievable’ as if a ‘catch’ was like water running uphill………..
then there is a simple weather report: pictures of snow plow trucks……………HELLO! It’s winter for God’s sake. Or a shot of a woman with a shopping cart: ‘brrr, it’s cold.’ No kiddin sherlock. News?
And my friend wonders why I do not have a tv. Geez. I get enough torture when I am out and about, and get plenty of ‘news’ without even trying. Televisions everywhere………..’
anyway ms bytes, tkx for the rant opportunity………… 😉
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insanitybytes22 said:
Ha! Thanks for ranting, Colorstorm. We’ve been having yet another very mild winter, but that hasn’t stopped the dreaded reporting about the hazards of…..winter! It’s cold, there’s some wind……what in the world is happening out there? Are the days getting shorter? Could it be man made? You have to just laugh sometimes, it really all gets too ridiculous.
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lafayetteangel said:
I love it (said sarcastically) when they beat a subject to a bloody pulp and beat some more. If the subject was a person they could be charged for murder and assault on a corpse. Like with snowstorm Jonas, they made in to a big kudos. It was just your typical blizzard. I am not down playing what a blizzard can do. Those of us live in areas where it snows knows what blizzards can do. We know what to do during a blizzard. We didn’t need to be hit over the head with consistently like we were dumb. There are other news they could of mentioned while waiting on updates on the storm and what it was doing. I think they over do it on some news.
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insanitybytes22 said:
I know, right? It’s enough to deal with the weather without having the media attempt to spread fear and hysteria for weeks on end. The other day they just announced we’ve been declared a federal disaster area, because of a storm that happened two years ago and the damage wasn’t even wide spread. Of course, if you didn’t live here and know the actual story, you would have thought it just happened yesterday and was caused by a natural disaster.
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lafayetteangel said:
Can’t win with the media anymore. We either get too little or too much or exaggerations information, lol.
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atimetoshare said:
We’re on the same track today, IB. I’ve really had it with the news media too as you can see in my post today. Where are the Chet Huntleys and David Brinkleys and other gray reporters of old. We’re being cheated of facts and truth in preference of facebook posts and Twitter feeds. Soon the courts and lawyers will be out of work because judgment are being fed to the court of public opinion.
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claire said:
Yep the “ministry of truth” are here to stay unfortunately. God help us all.
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Wally Fry said:
The irony of this just slays me. TV is my life. Literally it is. If people stopped watching TV I would be jobless.
I just finished at a place. House maybe 1000 sq ft. I hooked up 5 TVs. In the whole house one chair…5 TVs.
People can’t walk 10 ft and not see a TV. Sigh, it rather stinks to be part of the problem LOL.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Ha! Well Wally, it is what it is. If it weren’t for human nature, I suppose none of us would have a job. 😉
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silenceofmind said:
Wally,
Maybe your clients go gaga over educational programming and/or sports.
In that case you are doing righteous work!
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Wally Fry said:
Educational programming? Ba ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!
Sports, you bet. Let their SEC Network or ESPN go out and my name is mud.
It is righteous work though. I get to mention God to many, many people every week. Which is pretty cool.
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Citizen Tom said:
What a nice guy you are, and Wally didn’t thank you.
😉
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ColorStorm said:
Hey W, just thinkin here; you would hate me then for not providing your income. 😉 then again, the people w-the five sets more than make up for my not having any 😉 Seriously though, where can we hide where there are not tv’s.
In the E.R. people who are having a tough go want the tv remote. If ‘love is the drug………..’ what the heck is the ‘six and a half men’ show? Geez louise.
But stay warm under those houses! And of course: ‘in all labor there is profit.’
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Wally Fry said:
Yes indeed honest labor is a good thing my friend. I am blessed in what I do despite itself. Hardly a day goes by that I don’t get to at least mention the Name of God to somebody. Might only be a casual mention but it may be more than they have heard. A seed perhaps.
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insanitybytes22 said:
You are much blessed, Wally. God tends to plant us right where He wants us. I often think I would prefer a better assignment, perhaps on a tropical island somewhere with friendly people, and a more glamorous job. Just the same, God really knows best and He places us in those strategic positions for a reason. Not everyone is worthy of such tasks, so perhaps those are the ones who actually get sent to the tropical island.
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Wally Fry said:
That’s actually a great point. God does make some of us hardier than others. Some could only survive on the tropical island. We never know if our whole life is just to prepare us, like Esther, for such a time as this.
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The Isaiah 53:5 Project said:
I have very limited tolerance for news lately too.
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Salvageable said:
Count me in with the other commenters. A few years ago I was addicted to television news. Now I only see and hear it in waiting rooms (and I usually bring a book and try to ignore the television). Apparently Donald Trump and Pope Francis are having a debate over immigration, or so I gathered from what I overheard this morning… J.
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silenceofmind said:
I have come to the conclusion that the most successful journalists are actually psychotics.
Just imagine if you walked into a Walmart and one of the associates screamed over the store intercom that he was going to ruin you.
Of course, he’d be fired immediately and hauled off to the booby hatch.
Yet that is how the most successful journalists make their living and rise to the top among their peers.
In his, “Republic,” Plato takes care of that sort of society crushing lunacy by either exterminating it or sending it off into exile.
I think the moral of that story is that liberty for all, actually leads a society to self destruction.
The Founding Fathers answered that conundrum with the self-evident truth that a Republic can only exist if its people are virtuous.
That group of bonafide lunatics control our society’s media is simply another proof that the American society we all hope for, is long dead and gone.
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Eric said:
Silence:
Two things caused the decline of the American media:
1. Networks were formerly independent and competitive; now most are subsidiaries of big conglomerates with special interests. Early TV and radio used to take advertising revenue from their entertainment channels and use the combined profits to subsidize the news bureaus. I think that Movietone used to do something similar. Newspapers had some leverage over advertisers because they were sold by subscription.
2. During the Vietnam War, Left-wing activists flooded into Journalism and Media schools to avoid the draft. The media went from objectivity and investigative reporting to political activism and moral relativism. This and point 1 have caused a symbiotic relationship between Government, Media, Academia, and Corporate America and explains why those institutions are nearly always on the same page.
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silenceofmind said:
Eric,
Everyone acts in there own best interest.
Freedom to pursue self-interest is fundamental to a free society.
Consequently, it is critical to return to the concept of virtue.
Only a virtuous people can sustain a republic where freedom rings.
And since the Left has no virtue, and since the media was taken over by the Left, it follows that the media would be run by crazy people.
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Salvageable said:
Along with the Vietnam War came Watergate. Woodward and Bernstein portrayed themselves as heroes for breaking the tradition of unbiased journalism–not to mention breaking the law itself–to tell the public a distorted story about wrongdoing in the White House. A flood of people entered journalism hoping for the same kind of fame, and things have not been the same since. J.
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Eric said:
I read mostly foreign news sources. American journalism has gotten so bad that many of these news outlets have English-language editions, just to keep up with the demand.
Mostly the American media is Cultural Marxist propaganda; tabloid trash; and lots of finger-pointing at other countries to distract the Ameroboobs from problems here. Today, I saw for example a story about a local water shortage in North Korea when California is running out of water and most US cities’ water-treatment systems are falling apart. Not a peep about that, though.
The media too is always quoting some activist group, think-tank, or other pundits as authorities. Usually 5 minutes on a search engine reveals that the people they quote are nothing but paid shills of some vested interest.
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Tricia said:
I agree Eric that American news is almost indistinguishable from left wing propaganda outlets but what foreign ones do you find of substance? The standard ones in the UK and France seem to be much worse.
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Tricia said:
You have not seen overhyped TV news until you’ve lived in Southern California during a mildly aggressive rainstorm and experienced the hype of “STORM OF THE CENTURY!” both the week before, during and after said storm. It’s really embarrassing and shameless yet I’ve sadly gotten used to it.
I must look in to this mysterious floating feet syndrome as I haven’t been paying attention to the news since Donald Trump entered the scene. I had no idea what I’ve been missing out on!
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insanitybytes22 said:
Ha! Good point, Tricia. Southern Ca can really take the cake when it comes to weather hype. I’ve been there when they put the girl reporter outside in her raincoat to bring us horror stories about how people can’t drive now because the pavement is wet.
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Tricia said:
Lol Ib! And they still do that although the gender of the reporter who drew the short straw is more balanced between men and women. 😉 People go in to instant panic mode as soon as the pavement gets wet creating mass chaos on the freeways. God forbid it ever snowed…
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joyindestructible said:
I read there are six major news corps that control most all of our news. They report to a targeted audience with the intent of entertainment with the ‘facts’ from a slant to please. It’s like fast food, filled with calories and lots of fat, but slacking on substance. The stories that don’t get reported as scarier. Going over the local mug-shots is a more factual way of finding out what is really happening in one’s community and that can be a terrifying way to get to know about your neighbors. I live near the Mexican border and reporters know better than to delve too deeply into that story. I don’t keep up with the news like I used to either and sometimes, I feel guilty for being less aware but then I watch, read, and listen and find I don’t know much more than when I began. Sifting through opinions to ascertain a few facts is exhausting. As far as political news, each corporation has their politicians to support and be supported by. They used to just sleep together but now, big corps and big government are married and they cover for each other. All truth is relative to how it can be used to manipulate. I believe we may be the ones now, on the wrong side of a new iron curtain? Global disinformation?
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insanitybytes22 said:
Good one! Perhaps we really are on the wrong side of the iron curtain these days. The propaganda can sure get thick sometimes.
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Malcolm Greenhill said:
I quickly scan the headlines but usually never read news in-depth unless it’s at least a week old and preferably a few years old! Use the time saved to read a book. Of course you then have to avoid all those people who read nothing but the current news which is mostly political garbage. Use the time saved from socializing with cretins to read a book. I know you are on the same wavelength with me on this one.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Ha! Well said, Malcolm. I think half my problems would be solved if I would just read a book and stop socializing with cretins. 😉
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