| This bad. on 08:32 - Jun 14 with 1544 views | geg1992 |
Think people realise it's just miserable and usually biased one way or the other. |  |
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| This bad. on 08:34 - Jun 14 with 1523 views | GlasgowBlue |
Speaking from my own experience, I used to have Rolling news on in my office for years. Now I watch the news far less as it’s always so depressing. Probably stopped watching so much news when the pandemic was in in full swing. |  |
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| This bad. on 08:36 - Jun 14 with 1499 views | Freddies_Ears |
| This bad. on 08:32 - Jun 14 by geg1992 |
Think people realise it's just miserable and usually biased one way or the other. |
Whilst social media is so much more reliable and informative. Oh. |  | | |
| This bad. on 08:44 - Jun 14 with 1460 views | geg1992 |
| This bad. on 08:36 - Jun 14 by Freddies_Ears |
Whilst social media is so much more reliable and informative. Oh. |
Both bad. | |
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| This bad. on 10:16 - Jun 14 with 1331 views | wkj |
| This bad. on 08:36 - Jun 14 by Freddies_Ears |
Whilst social media is so much more reliable and informative. Oh. |
Honestly, I think there is little between the two these days |  |
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| This bad. on 10:44 - Jun 14 with 1295 views | SlippinJimmyJuan |
I have definitely started to avoid the news. I no longer regularly sit down and watch it of an evening, and the amount of articles I read is drastically reduced. Big stuff like wars, science and the environment, I keep abreast of, but I really see no point in keeping up with politics anymore.
Nothing ever changes, just a rotating cast of miserable, shape-shifting puppets who profit off the rest of us and hold us back. I'd rather concern myself with stuff we might actually be able to change. | |
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| This bad. on 12:24 - Jun 14 with 1243 views | GeoffSentence |
| This bad. on 10:16 - Jun 14 by wkj |
Honestly, I think there is little between the two these days |
TWTD is the most reliable source for news |  |
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| This bad. on 14:12 - Jun 14 with 1184 views | Ewan_Oozami |
| This bad. on 12:24 - Jun 14 by GeoffSentence |
TWTD is the most reliable source for news |
Frimmers' daily reports on the Staples site are a must-watch... |  |
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| This bad. on 14:23 - Jun 14 with 1162 views | NthQldITFC |
| This bad. on 08:32 - Jun 14 by geg1992 |
Think people realise it's just miserable and usually biased one way or the other. |
I get the impression that back in my parents' and grandparents' days people were so much more engaged with relatively trustworthy news sources, and consequently engaged with politics and their own destinies. As more and more of us switch off from (as you say miserable) news stories, we are effectively doing a great disservice to our and our children's futures.
Of course we are increasingly distracted from harsh realities by ever more distracting technologies and information (and misinformation and disinformation), but we also have to take some personal responsibility for how much we engage. It's too easy and lazy to cop out. We can still try to set the agenda through our damaged but still functioning electoral system if only we can all try to remember what the important things in life are, before it is too late. |  |
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| This bad. on 15:20 - Jun 14 with 1109 views | J2BLUE |
This is absolute nonsense though isn't it? Define the news.
Even traditional news sources are now at least 50% garbage or filtering 'the news' through their ideological viewpoints.
If they had presented 10 serious news pieces and asked if people were interested it would likely have been a lot higher. The news now consists of a running commentary on things like Vardy vs Rooney or Prince Harry's latest drama etc etc. |  |
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| This bad. on 20:18 - Jun 14 with 1016 views | wkj |
| This bad. on 12:24 - Jun 14 by GeoffSentence |
TWTD is the most reliable source for news |
Fourms - yes, that tosh in the news section? hardly | |
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| This bad. on 20:30 - Jun 14 with 997 views | NthQldITFC |
| This bad. on 15:20 - Jun 14 by J2BLUE |
This is absolute nonsense though isn't it? Define the news.
Even traditional news sources are now at least 50% garbage or filtering 'the news' through their ideological viewpoints.
If they had presented 10 serious news pieces and asked if people were interested it would likely have been a lot higher. The news now consists of a running commentary on things like Vardy vs Rooney or Prince Harry's latest drama etc etc. |
Fair point. I guess it depends how the researchers gathered their data, but empirically I'd say that fewer people I talk to these days are willing to get involved in debating the serious issues. Perhaps that's because, as many on here will say again and again, the serious issues are too intractable, or perhaps it's the plethora of distractions (willing or unwilling) or perhaps it's the type of people I talk to these days (or more likely the way I talk to them!) | |
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| This bad. on 20:34 - Jun 14 with 985 views | TresBonne |
Can be looked at one of two ways. Half full half empty et al.
On one hand, I never watch it on TV anymore, prefer just to cherry pick articles to read. You realise the difference when you're watching at 7 with some breakfast before work & it's all negative, negative, negative. Starts ya day off wrong.
That being said, much of the stuff which is pushed out on social media also happens to be pure bollox and biased opinion too. I don't truly believe there to be a single politically centralised source of news any more, literally at all. |  | | |
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