I gave up about 35 years ago paying attention to more the 10% of any news show/paper. That was about the time I realized that there is very little actual news in the media and a great deal of fear mongering and distortion. Last news paper I read was the one that made a friend of mine sound like a pervert because he had the misfortune of collapsing of carbon monoxide when getting out of the bathtub. “Fake news” is all the rage as the newest catch phrase, but I can’t but help but think that our “News” is so over hyped and over analysed that in all honesty can anyone actually say its not fiction?
Don’t waste your time on TV news networks, Karma (and local broadcast news is only marginally better, because most local consumers can see and correct the errors and omissions that concern what’s nearby). Hop in the little red wagon with that French dude.
Da cart, boss, da cart! Really, René? I think so. So, it must be so….
A few years back our local bus system started a new pass system where company’s downtown could buy yearly bus passes for their employees and they only cost $5 for the year. As I understand it, the idea was to encourage downtown employees to take the bus and free up parking spaces for shoppers. The local paper sent out a reporter to interview employees who would be affected by the new pass and when they got to the bookstore where I worked the manager pointed me out for an interview. I gave the reporter a quote about how it was much cheeper to take the bus every month instead of paying for parking for a month and then added that I was looking forward to how much money I was going to save with the new pass. When the paper with my interview came out I turned to the interview and discovered that the reporter had tried to save space in the article by “simplyfying” my quote to the point that it made no sense at all, and made me look like an idiot. I talked to another bus rider a few days later and found out that he’d read the article and I told him about the original quote I gave the reporter and he said, “Now that makes sense, and it makes a good point about how much money people would save by using the bus. What he put in the article doesn’t make any sense at all.”
During the Vietnam war my BIL told me that he believed the war was justified based upon what he read in the newspaper. I asked him if he had ever been involved with anything that was then reported in the paper, and if the report was accurate. That changed his mind about the war.
Khatkhattu Premium Member about 7 years ago
Better stay off the internet as well.
Weakstream about 7 years ago
What goes around – comes around.
Lee Cox about 7 years ago
So she’s watching FOX News?
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 7 years ago
Only time i see the news is when I’m at a clients house. Thats enough for me.
Mostly Water Premium Member about 7 years ago
If you hate the news, it doesn’t go away just because you ignore it.
Wenthral about 7 years ago
I gave up about 35 years ago paying attention to more the 10% of any news show/paper. That was about the time I realized that there is very little actual news in the media and a great deal of fear mongering and distortion. Last news paper I read was the one that made a friend of mine sound like a pervert because he had the misfortune of collapsing of carbon monoxide when getting out of the bathtub. “Fake news” is all the rage as the newest catch phrase, but I can’t but help but think that our “News” is so over hyped and over analysed that in all honesty can anyone actually say its not fiction?
Nick Danger about 7 years ago
Rene’s wagon has magic letters that change from white to black
RAGs about 7 years ago
According to Ambrose Bierce, it should be “Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.”
Stephen Gilberg about 7 years ago
META TV?
I thought people avoided the news because it’s mostly unhappy.
Sisyphos about 7 years ago
Don’t waste your time on TV news networks, Karma (and local broadcast news is only marginally better, because most local consumers can see and correct the errors and omissions that concern what’s nearby). Hop in the little red wagon with that French dude.
Da cart, boss, da cart! Really, René? I think so. So, it must be so….
patlaborvi about 7 years ago
A few years back our local bus system started a new pass system where company’s downtown could buy yearly bus passes for their employees and they only cost $5 for the year. As I understand it, the idea was to encourage downtown employees to take the bus and free up parking spaces for shoppers. The local paper sent out a reporter to interview employees who would be affected by the new pass and when they got to the bookstore where I worked the manager pointed me out for an interview. I gave the reporter a quote about how it was much cheeper to take the bus every month instead of paying for parking for a month and then added that I was looking forward to how much money I was going to save with the new pass. When the paper with my interview came out I turned to the interview and discovered that the reporter had tried to save space in the article by “simplyfying” my quote to the point that it made no sense at all, and made me look like an idiot. I talked to another bus rider a few days later and found out that he’d read the article and I told him about the original quote I gave the reporter and he said, “Now that makes sense, and it makes a good point about how much money people would save by using the bus. What he put in the article doesn’t make any sense at all.”
luvcmx about 7 years ago
During the Vietnam war my BIL told me that he believed the war was justified based upon what he read in the newspaper. I asked him if he had ever been involved with anything that was then reported in the paper, and if the report was accurate. That changed his mind about the war.