how often do you watch the news on TV or read the news in the paper? basically, how much news do you consume?

Why do you feel bad?

because if you fuckers don't buy more papers, i end up starving on the streets of glasgow, eating my shoes.

(that's why you SHOULD feel bad. i imagine it's not the case.)

Are you Werner Herzog?

feel bad cos its like youre going round uninformed about whats happening around you

See I think that isn't really true. There are lots of people around the world who don't watch "The News" but know plenty about what's happening around them.

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It'd be a long walk for me to buy yr paper, right?

(I will try to eat more fish and chips tho if that helps.)

i mean, i still know enough as i read other websites and hear from other people, but i think its good to digest that info yourself and make up your own mind first hand.

but... how can you know whats happening around you if you dont watch the news or anything related?

What goes on around me is mostly work, family, friends, hello trees, hello flowers. I think watching the News can be interesting, if you like that sort of thing, but it's not an essential part of a happy life.

Oh, and it's good to know about it for quizzes too.

I disagree, although I think it's masochistic sometimes, and I will take breaks from it. But if you're intending to vote, or, y'know, have an opinion on anything, then it's very important to keep up. Today I watched an ITV report on 'Tony Blair in Europe' and the way it was reported was so one-sided that if I hadn't known anything about it before I would have come away with some very odd views. You need multiple outlets over a sustained period of time to be able to ever think about anything from a vaguely reasonable point of view.

part of the reason i havent watched it for a while now though is just the fact its going to frustrate me and i dont feel like being frustrated lately...

It'd be a long walk for me to buy yr paper, right?

meh. no excuse ;)

I dont trust 95% of the print or TV media fed to me, so it can fuck off. I dont watch TV at all really and I only skim a few papers. I'm happy to be less stressed than my media-politics obsessive friends. Theyre constantly angry about the world!

And I expect to be told I'm an idiot for this, but don't care.

I wouldn't watch local or US network TV news if every other channel was showing re-runs of the Too Close for Comfort episode where Monroe gets raped in the van. It's just awful, awful, awful reporting, esp. the local stuff, which has pretty much given up on the concept of "news" completely and merely covers whatever's in the local print rag or off the AP wire; or re-purposes nearly verbatim corporate press releases and calls them "features." Fuck a TV news.

Even cable news just gets under my skin anymore. FOX News is out of the question and CNN and MSNBC are a bunch of GOP-enabling cockfarmers.

Usually I read the NYT, WaPo and the local paper (Cleveland Plain Dealer, the worst major metro daily in America) online, along with about a dozen RSS feeds from different news sources and blogs. That's about as informed as I want to be.

i don't watch news on tv but i like to read internetz news practically every day. It generally frustrates me a lot, though.

I don't watch TV news at all, and my paper consumption is limited to when I have nothing else to read at hand.

Thank god for the Internets.

i avoid any and all TV news like the fucking plague... awful awful awful awful... its either "here's what WE EXCLUSIVELY think you need to know, condensed into 23 minutes" or "OH MY GOD we're on 24 hours a day AND WE HAVE TO FILL AIRTIME... hey you, some guy! yes you! have your own TV show! here catch!... whats it about? i dont know, talk about anything!... WHO'S SUPPOSED TO CARE? WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT??"

anyway, a couple times a day i check a billion different websites for news, very few of which are based in my own country (the united states)

I'm in the Noodle/Trayce camp. Fuck having to have an opinion on everything, esp stuff that's deemed "important". Life's too short to force myself to constantly bone up on what all the egomaniacal "important" people are saying and doing. I have little interest in politics/world affairs, whether it be of the present day or historical times (I always look for history books that focus on everyday life rather than kings and wars). If you have an interest in the news, great. If you try to inform yourself with the net goal of making the world better, super. But seckle with the holier-than-thou b.s.

Seriously, even the more "left" (using the term vry loosely) broadsheet paper here in Melbourne is veerying very very rapidly towards sensationalism and shallow pap passed off as "news" these days. They have articles on things like, for eg that shooting here the other day, with "do you know the victim and have any stories? SMS us" I mean WTF!?!!

veerying? Veering.

even the more "left" (using the term vry loosely) broadsheet paper here in Melbourne

which one's that, trayce? my erstwhile boss edits a daily melbourne paper ;)

tv news in america is terrible so i hardly watch it unless it's a "special-interest" show (read: on pbs), like now or frontline or bbc world news or etc.

i read news websites every day, though, pretty incessantly. and i buy the sunday new york times out of habit/ritual. every once in a while i'll buy a daily paper, usually if i'm up early.

It's fine not to keep up with what's going on, but jesus, my former housemates took the cake for not knowing a fucking thing about anything in the world (I don't think he ever voted in an election, given some of the questions he asked me about my voting experience in the most recent one) but still feeling free to complain about everything. Not a notion.

I get my Irish news from the radio in the morning, my British news from the BBC's evening news bulletin and from the Guardian or the Observer at the weekend, and my American news from The Daily Show.

I also work as an abstracter for a social sciences library services company, so I get to read loads of journals and news magazines about stuff everywhere in the world. Sadly it's all from three months ago, so I'm a little behind on my opinions.

it's not an essential part of a happy life.

On the contrary, if you want to be (even more) depressed, then watch the news. I watch it (with half an eye open) about every (other) day. I don't buy any newspapers at all anymore. I do read CNN online as well as a couple of belgians newspapers, but not really seriously (read: I quickly go to the showbizz section).