Listening to the news is too often like listening to an audio book of short horror stories.
A young father in Alberta has been murdered and his two-year-old daughter kidnapped and killed.
People by the hundreds of thousands or is it millions are on the road because they're not safe in their homes and cannot build a life there, and one country has actually built a fence to keep them out. If they starve and freeze, so what! Not our problem, even when they're on our doorstep, apparently.
Oil companies and manufacturers — and the people who operate them — are polluting our air, water, and land as if the planet is an endless supply dump for them to take what they want from and leave their mess behind, making people and animals sick.
The wealthy, to whom, for many, money and abundance came easy, due to luck and not to personal merit, cannot understand that the poor can work very, very hard and can make the best of the choices they have (if any), and still not escape poverty. The rich will vote in the government that protects their own money and screws over the people who don't have big bucks to donate to the election campaign.
Then there's me, with my cosy little house and the peaceful, lovely landscape around my quiet road. A dull story in comparison, but it's the one I prefer. I think I'll leave the radio off for a few days.
"Listening to the news is too often like listening to an audio book of short horror stories." So true.
ReplyDeleteIf it helped anyone worth helping, I would listen to the news. It builds careers for some, controls the world view of many people, and no matter how much information is out there, the only chance for change lies with human activity, not words or pictures. I don't read or listen to the news, I read the words of people who are balanced, and speak from the heart without a hidden agenda... that precludes the news in any form.
I've found that there are swaths of world events I'm ignorant of, due to periods of time as an adult when I never listened to or watched the news, say in the eighties when I was in my twenties. That's not a good thing when you are an editor and need to be familiar with some of these things so that you don't come across as a total nitwit!
Deleteso true so true
ReplyDeleteI'm not unsympathetic with all that is going on in the world today, but sometimes I feel that all this 24 News horror is feeding the frenzy. Gore gore and more gore. If you think North American networks are bad nothing compared to Al Jazeera, which the husband insists on watching every night. Sometime one needs to disconnect.
ReplyDeleteI've been told Al Jazeera is a better news station than North American ones; more comprehensive or something. There is no danger of my watching it, though. Thanks for the headsup too.
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