Also a fine week for tuna melts!
Anyone else tend to take temporary holidays away from the news? Reason for me is always: overwhelming, crushing depression wrought by the senseless and cruel ways of our wicked world. Also: video games.
It's important to keep informed but sometimes the need to keep stress low is higher priority.
― Abbott, Sunday, 3 August 2008 21:50 (seventeen years ago)
I don't own a television. That's not a bragging point; I like a bunch of stuff on television...but at least it helps me to escape television news coverage.
In the past several months I've tried to avoid reading stuff about the U.S. presidential elections...that's not a proud statement of ignorance; it's just that I can't bear to hear accusations/recriminations of "blah blah blah race blah blah blah Clinton" shit anymore.
― dell, Sunday, 3 August 2008 21:55 (seventeen years ago)
I have, too, but it's only bcz at this point it is a bunch of piddly minutiae for the most part. Election ain't worth keeping up on until SAD season IMO.
― Abbott, Sunday, 3 August 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)
Election coverage is super tempting (although mostly pointless) because it's easy to follow and it's one of the few news stories where it's easy and pretty painless to act directly and get personally involved, or at least act directly in a way you think makes you personally involved.
― Oilyrags, Sunday, 3 August 2008 22:03 (seventeen years ago)
I've taken all actual news out of my newsreader.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 3 August 2008 23:19 (seventeen years ago)
I wish I could do this.
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 3 August 2008 23:21 (seventeen years ago)
take temporary holidays away from the news that is.
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 3 August 2008 23:22 (seventeen years ago)
No news is good news. Isn't it pretty much proven that watching TV news makes people neurotic? I read various conspiracy-theory based websites to keep up to date on the latest news that they don't want you to know but otherwise steer pretty clear of being informed about issues, events and controversies.
― saudade, Monday, 4 August 2008 02:17 (seventeen years ago)
this morning at the local coffee shop my bf was reading headlines to me from the tv's news crawl -- it was the grisly details of the manitoba bus story, and i begged him to stop. i just don't want to hear it.
― get bent, Monday, 4 August 2008 02:49 (seventeen years ago)
High-fives my homegirl attempting to have a few moments of chillaxation in this wide, wide world of sports!
― Abbott, Monday, 4 August 2008 20:21 (seventeen years ago)
I get no television reception and don't listen to radio -- the only way I get news is online, and even then not very frequently. I'll scan the front page of the NY Times, that's about it. So yes, I'm on holiday from the news ALL the time!
I used to get the Economist, I liked it.
― Laurel, Monday, 4 August 2008 20:26 (seventeen years ago)
I do take weeks where I don't read the paper. Otherwise, just too media saturated.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 4 August 2008 20:26 (seventeen years ago)
in my office we are required to have cnn and msnbc on all throughout the day, so I stay pretty insulated from whatever's actually going on in the world.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 4 August 2008 20:28 (seventeen years ago)
hahahaha
― Abbott, Monday, 4 August 2008 20:37 (seventeen years ago)